New York City Housing Authority v. Greenbaum

The allegation of paragraph 6th of the petition sufficiently complies, for pleading purposes, with subdivision 4 of section 5 of the State Residential Rent Law (L. 1946, ch. 274, as amd.). It was accordingly error to dismiss the petition before the landlord had offered any evidence. At the trial it will, however, be necessary for the landlord to establish that its termination of the tenancy was based upon a ground for termination authorized by the statute or regulations under which the housing accommodations are administered. Although the tenants may not, in a dispossess proceeding, litigate…