Jackson v. Concord Company

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hall, J.

This rental housing discrimination case is here on our grant of cross petitions for certification by the Division on Civil Eights (“Division”), and the corporate property owner along with its named individual representatives (“respondents”). 52 N. J. 173 (1968).

The Director of the Division, adopting the recommendations of the hearing examiner, found that respondents had denied thé complainant Jackson, a Negro, the equal opportunity to lease an apartment, admittedly constituting real property within the coverage of the Law Against Discrimination…