Chase Manhattan Bank v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, inter alia, to review a determination of the respondent Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, dated May 5, 1977, and made after a hearing, which denied petitioners’ application for a moratorium permit under the Freshwater Wetlands Act, the commissioner and department appeal (by permission) from so much of an order of the Supreme *780Court, Richmond County, entered April 13, 1978, as denied the branches of their motion which sought (1) to convert certain claims contained in the petition into an action for a…