Opinion
April 18, 1945.
Appeal from the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, CURTIN, J.
Louis R. Teig for appellants.
Jacob Goldberg for respondent.
MEMORANDUM
The premises referred to in the petition are used for commercial purposes and were so used in March, 1943, although not in the existing units. The emergency rent must be fixed for the premises in their present arrangement by appropriate action pursuant to subdivision (e) of section 2 of the Emergency Rent Law (L. 1945, ch. 3) before summary proceedings may be maintained for nonpayment of rent. (Emergency Rent Law, § 6, subd. [a]; L. 1945, ch. 3.)
The final orders should be reversed, with $30 costs as of one appeal, and final orders directed in favor of tenants, with costs.
SHIENTAG, McLAUGHLIN and HECHT, JJ., concur.
Orders reversed, etc.