Case Name: In the Matter of Jean Payne, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Children, Respondent, v. Jule Sugarman, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, Respondent, and George Wyman, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1972-12-06
Citations: 31 N.Y.2d 845
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Jean Payne, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Children, Respondent, v. Jule Sugarman, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, Respondent, and George Wyman, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 31
Pages: 845–847

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Jean Payne, Individually and on Behalf of Her Minor Children, Respondent, v. Jule Sugarman, as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Social Services, Respondent, and George Wyman, as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services, Appellant.
Argued October 30, 1972;
decided December 6, 1972.
Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Mortimer Sattler, Samuel A. Hirshowitz and Maryellen Weinberg of counsel), for appellant.
Eugene Prosnitz for petitioner-respondent.

Opinion:
Order affirmed, with costs. Since the property upon which respondent City Department of Social Services requested a mortgage was not and never had been owned in whole or in part by the petitioner, the respondent was not authorized by section 360 (subd. 1) of the Social Services Law — or any other statute — to require the petitioner to give a deed or mortgage on the aforesaid property as a condition to ' ' the granting of aid [to dependent children] or the continuance thereof ". We pass on no other question.
Concur: Chief Judge Fuld and Judges Burke, ScilEppi, Bergan and Gibson. Judge Breitel dissents and votes to reverse in the following opinion in which Judge Jasen concurs.