Clason Management Co. v. Altman

Memorandum. The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, without costs.

In concluding that the Emergency Housing Bent Control Act does not grant a statutory tenant of land the right to assign his tenancy, the Appellate Division’s decision was unexceptionable. The 1962 amendment to the rent control law merely brought rented land within the definition of “ housing accommodations ” so that tenants of land would receive the same protection as persons who rented other forms of housing (L. 1962, ch. 126). Neither from the legislative history, nor from the text of the law itself, does it…