278 A.D. 579 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1951
In a proceeding to fix a reasonable rent in excess of the emergency rent, the tenant appeals from the final order, entered on the decision of an Official Referee, which found $375 a month to be reasonable rent. Final order reversed on the law and the facts, without costs, and the matter remitted to the Official Referee for further proceedings upon the evidence heretofore taken and such additional evidence, if any, as may be produced by the parties, to make a decision and to indicate the findings upon which the determination is made so that such determination may be properly reviewed upon appeal. (Matter of Zellner [Brooklyn Trust Co.], 270 App. Div. 941.) The parties agree that the proceeding was not brought in pursuance of the amendments of the Commercial Rent Law (L. 1945, eh. 3, as amd. by L. 1949, ch. 534, and L. 1950, eh. 327) which provide an alternative method for determining fair rent in excess of emergency rent. On this record it appears that the parties proceeded on the theory that the rental area was the parcel occupied by the tenant and that there was no specific assessment of that parcel on the latest completed tax roll at the time of the hearing. The landlord, under such circumstances, could not state in a bill of particulars or at the hearing what the specific assessed value of this parcel was. Therefore, there was no warrant