Davis v. Lavine

This is an article 78 proceeding by a recipient of aid to dependent children to set aside respondent’s determination, rendered after a statutory hearing, that petitioner was not entitled to a special grant for furniture under section 131-a of the Social Services Law because petitioner’s “ request for furniture was not to establish a home nor to replace furniture lost pursuant to this section ”.

Petitioner, as the sole witness at the hearing, provided the underlying facts in her testimony. In 1967, while living in a 2%-room apartment in Brooklyn with her four children, petitioner made her first…