Garay v. Todros

Owners of adjoining buildings seek a declaratory judgment construing the demolition provisions in the emergency statutes applicable to residential and commercial properties (State Residential Rent Law, § 5, subd. 2, par. [c]; L. 1951, ch. 443; Rent and Eviction Regulations, § 58; Commercial Rent Law, § 8, subd. [c]; L. 1945, ch. 3, as amd. by L. 1952, ch. 416). The State Rent Commission and a number of the residential tenants of the buildings moved to dismiss the complaint for insufficiency. Special Term denied the motions, and the moving defendants appealed.

*128Owners claim that unless they can…