HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF WILDWOOD v. Hayward

The opinion of the court was delivered by

SULLIVAN, J.

This is a landlord and tenant summary dispossess proceeding which simply got out of hand. We granted certification, 79 N.J. 493 (1979), to review the Appellate Division’s order which dismissed the tenant’s appeal.

The essential facts follow. Plaintiff, Housing Authority of the City of Wildwood (Housing Authority), owns and operates the Commissioner Court Apartments in Wildwood. Defendant, Shirley Hayward, is a tenant therein occupying one of the apartments with her three children. Richard Davis had also been living in the same apartment as a…