Village of Spring Valley v. Village of Spring Valley Housing Authority
| Decision Date | 16 February 1970 |
| Citation | 308 N.Y.S.2d 736,33 A.D.2d 1037 |
| Parties | In the Matter of VILLAGE OF SPRING VALLEY, Respondent, v. The VILLAGE OF SPRING VALLEY HOUSING AUTHORITY, Respondent, and Joseph Burt et al., appellants-intervenors. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Sam Blecher, Spring Valley, for respondent Village of Spring Valley.
Jack Greenberg, Michael Davidson, Jonathan Shapiro, William Bennett Turner, New York City, for appellants.
Before BRENNAN, Acting P.J., and RABIN, HOPKINS, BENJAMIN and MUNDER, JJ.
MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
In this proceeding pursuant to section 57 of the Public Housing Law by the Village of Spring Valley (Village) to dissolve the Village of Spring Valley Housing Authority (Authority), the appeal, as limited by appellants' brief, is from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County, entered October 15, 1969, as denied their separate motions for leave to intervene as parties respondent in the proceeding and to serve proposed answers.
Originally only the appeal by Joseph Burt and Priscilla Burt was perfected; however, upon the subsequent written stipulation of the attorneys for all the respective parties, including appellants, dated November 10, 1969, the determination herein covers as well the appeal by David R. Wilson, Thelma M. Wilson and Spring Valley Chapter NAACP, both appeals are consolidated, and the caption of the appeal is amended to conform with the caption of the stipulation.
Order reversed insofar as appealed from, on the facts and the law and in the exercise of this court's discretion, without costs, and motions granted. Appellants' proposed answers to the petition shall be served within 10 days after entry of the order hereon.
The Authority was established, pursuant to a special statute enacted on April 9, 1962 (L.1962, ch. 406), as a public agency to construct and maintain public housing in the Village of Spring Valley for the benefit of low-income residents of the village and to alleviate slum conditions in the village. It consented to the motions to intervene. The village opposed.
Appellants contend that they are low-income persons residing in substandard housing in a ghetto slum area of the village and seek to intervene individually and as representatives of the other low-income persons residing in slum area of the village.
We are of the opinion that the motions to intervene should have been granted as a matter of discretion under CPLR 1013 as there are common questions...
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