Jewish Center of Mt. Vernon v. Mt. Eden Cemetery

Full title: JEWISH CENTER OF MT. VERNON, INC., Appellant, v. MT. EDEN CEMETERY…

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Nov 1, 1962

186 N.E.2d 567 (N.Y. 1962)

186 N.E.2d 567

234 N.Y.S.2d 720

Opinion

Argued October 24, 1962

Decided November 1, 1962

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, ROBERT DOSCHER, J.

Harry Lesser, Philip J. Lesser, Herbert W. Aronson and Henry L. Hecht for appellant.

Theodore N. Tarlau and Percival E. Jackson for respondent.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General ( Herbert J. Wallenstein, Paxton Blair and Irving Galt of counsel), for intervenor-respondent.

Lawrence Kovalsky, Eli B. Levy and Gilbert Goldstein for United Hebrew Community of New York (Adath Israel of New York), amicus curiae.

Judgment modified, without costs, so as to eliminate the provision dismissing the complaint and to provide that in lieu thereof, for the reasons stated in Lanza v. Wagner ( 11 N.Y.2d 317, 334), the jural relationship between the parties be declared as set forth in the opinion of the Appellate Division. No opinion.

Concur: Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER.