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MULLIGAN v. WESTERN UNION TEL. CO.

20 F.Supp. 953 (1937)

MULLIGAN v. WESTERN UNION TEL. CO. ZWIRNER v. SAME.

District Court, D. New Jersey,

October 5, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl H. Auerbach, of Camden, N. J., for plaintiff Andrew W. Mulligan.

Tenenbaum & Feinberg, of Camden, N. J., (Carl Kisselman, of Camden, N. J., of counsel), for plaintiff William F. Zwirner.

Edwards, Smith & Dawson, of Jersey City, N. J., (Francis R. Stark, of New York City, and Edwin F. Smith and Charles M. James, both of Jersey City, of counsel), for defendant.

FORMAN, District Judge.

In 1935 the country was swept by a fad or craze known as the "chain letter" scheme, the workings of which were something like the following although there were innumerable variations of the idea. X received a letter from Y in which Y stated that he had found a way to get rich quickly. He instructed X to place his name in the first position on the list of a number of names which he inclosed. X was further instructed to send a specified sum of...

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