Legal Opinion
Wolfisch v. Mailman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 21, 1992PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Shirley Fingerhood, J.), entered September 13, 1991, which, insofar as appealed from, granted plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss the first and fourth affirmative defenses of lack of subject matter jurisdiction, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court has statutory jurisdiction to entertain an action to recover a rent overcharge and power to award treble damages where the landlord fails to disprove willfulness (McKinney’s Uncons Laws of NY § 8632 [a] [1] [f| [Emergency Tenant Protection Act § 12; L 1974, ch 576, § 4, as amended]; Smitten v 56…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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