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Matter of Abdella v. Scribner

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 29, 1972
293 N.E.2d 96 (N.Y. 1972)

Opinion

Argued December 5, 1972

Decided December 29, 1972

Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, FELIX J. AULISI, J.

Ernest Abdella, appellant in person.

Angelo D. Lomanto, City Attorney, and H. Andrew Schlusberg for respondents.


Order affirmed without costs. Although error was committed when the trial court accepted the city expert's method of valuation based in part on the capitalization of income from hypothetical buildings, it was harmless error as the other evidence in the record amply supports the determination in the courts below.

Concur: Chief Judge FULD and Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, JASEN and GIBSON. Judge BREITEL dissents and votes to reverse in the following opinion.


I dissent and vote to reverse and remand for a new hearing on the ground that an examination of the entire record demonstrates that the city's expert relied exclusively on a hypothetical assumption as to nonexistent and nonprojected buildings. The deficiency is not supplied by the reference to other rental values which were used only as an adjunct to the computation of impermissible, hypothetical structures (see Arlen of Nanuet v. State of New York, 26 N.Y.2d 346, 353-354, 356, 358; People ex rel. Parklin Operating Corp. v. Miller, 287 N.Y. 126, 130-131; Levitin v. State of New York, 12 A.D.2d 6, 8). Moreover, the record does not contain proof of comparable sales to support the Referee's findings.

Order affirmed, etc.


Summaries of

Matter of Abdella v. Scribner

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 29, 1972
293 N.E.2d 96 (N.Y. 1972)
Case details for

Matter of Abdella v. Scribner

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of ERNEST ABDELLA, Appellant, v. ROBERT SCRIBNER, as…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Dec 29, 1972

Citations

293 N.E.2d 96 (N.Y. 1972)
293 N.E.2d 96
340 N.Y.S.2d 928

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