MATTER OF CITY OF NEW YORK

Arthur J.W. Hilly, Corporation Counsel ( Joseph F. Mulqueen, Jr., Joel J. Squier, J. Joseph Lilly and Reuben Levy of counsel), for appellant. Clarence J. Shearn, Charles J. Nehrbas and Martin Lippman for Charles E. Hughes, Jr., as ancillary receiver of American Bond and Mortgage Company, respondent. Henry Herz and Isaac E. Bermant for Hyman Steinberg et al., respondents. Louis Salant, Joseph J. Cunningham and Eli S. Wolbarst for Fannie A. Kallis et al., respondents. Reginald S. Hardy for Kate Rubino, as executrix of Joseph C. Rubino, deceased, respondent. Leffert Holz, Benjamin F. Schreiber and Herman Schrier for Milton Brinn et al., respondents. Charles Lamb and Edmund J. Delany for David Davis et al., respondents. Sidney A. Clarkson, Albert A. Hovell and Harry W. McChesney for Harry W. Perlman, respondent. Nathan L. Goldstein, George Schenker and Irving S. Dorf for Isabel Blumborg et al., respondents. S.G. Nissenson for Nathan Himowich, respondent. Francis P. O'Connor and Edward W. Murphy for James N. Webb et al., respondents. Charles B. Fernald and F.W.H. Adams for the Chase National Bank of the City of New York et al., respondents. Dominic L. O'Reilly, James Regan FitzGerald and A.M. Frumberg for Max Horowitz et al., and Marknew Realty Co., Inc., respondents. Leslie J. Tompkins, Dominic L. O'Reilly and James Regan FitzGerald for Bernard L. Meyer et al., respondents. Ira B. Livingston for Oscar Lloyd Realty Corporation, respondent. Samuel Rubin and William W. Conrad for Stancar Realty Corporation et al., respondents. Ignatius Castelli for Charles Lampedusa, respondent. Louis A. Rosenstein and Maurice Janklow for Fanny E. Krooks, respondent. Harry Lesser for Samuel M. Krauthamer, respondent. Barnett E. Kopelman and Alexander Liebman for I. Ptaschnik Son, Inc., respondent.