Housing Authority of Newark v. Jones

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BILDER, J.A.D.

In this appeal we are asked to decide whether the testimony of other tenants is necessary to establish that violent acts are so disorderly as to destroy their peace and quiet so as to authorize the eviction of a tenant under N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.-1b. On motion of the tenant, the trial judge dismissed a summary dispossess action brought by a landlord on the ground that it had not made a prima facie case because it failed to present testimony as to how the defendant’s violent conduct disrupted any other tenant’s peace and quiet—the good cause…