Dunbar Apartments Co. v. Gabel

Petitioner is the landlord of a block of apartment buildings housing some 535 tenants. In this proceeding it challenges the denial of its application to respondent City Rent Administrator for leave to discontinue the existing method of supplying electric current to the tenants.

The background of the application lies in the procedures adopted by respondent’s predecessor, the State Rent Administrator, to cope with the changes necessitated by the ruling, in 1952, of the Public Service Commission. The latter at that time forbade the practice generally followed by landlords of apartment buildings…