Plaza Management Co. v. City Rent Agency

The two actions involve identical questions relating to different properties. For purposes of discussion, only one will be referred to, but the conclusions reached apply-to both.

The complaint seeks a judgment declaring unconstitutional the city rent law, particularly as amended pursuant to Local Law No. 41 of the City of New York of 1967. Defendant city rent agency moved to dismiss the complaint and alternatively to make the complaint more definite and certain. Special Term found that the complaint was objectionable as to form, as it undeniably is. The branch of the motion requiring a new…