Milton v. Christian

In Milton v. Christian, 99 A.D.2d 984, 985, 473 N.Y.S.2d 194 (1st Dept. 1984), although the tenant threatened a Housing Assistant on two occasions and verbally abused and possibly struck a maintenance worker and two others in a dispute concerning the failure of the staff to repair a leak in the tenant's apartment, the First Department found that the penalty of termination was "shocking to one's sense of fairness," noting that the tenant was "under extreme physical and emotional stress" due to medical problems, abandonment by the tenant's wife and child and neglect by the Housing Authority to repair leaks in the tenant's apartment.