SEAWELL v. MacWITHEY


2 N.J. 563 (1949)

67 A.2d 309

CHARLES SEAWELL ET AL., PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, v. JAMES L. MacWITHEY ET AL., DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS, AND CHARLES R. ERDMAN, JR., ET AL., DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided June 30, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter C. Ellis argued the cause for the defendants-appellants.

Mr. Chester K. Ligham (Mr. Theodore D. Parsons, Attorney General) argued the cause for the defendants-respondents, Charles R. Erdman, Jr., and William T. Vanderlipp.

Mr. Jerome C. Eisenberg (Mr. Herbert H. Tate, attorney; Mr. Israel Spicer, on the brief) argued the cause for the defendants-respondents, Charles Seawell et al.

Mr. Richard F. Green filed a brief for the American Veterans Committee, as amicus curiae.

Mr. Victor H. Miles filed a brief for the American Jewish Committee and B'Nai B'Rith (Anti-Defamation League), as amici curiae.


The opinion of the court was delivered by VANDERBILT, C.J.

This is an appeal by the City of East Orange, its Mayor and the members of its City Council, from a judgment of the Chancery Division of the Superior Court dismissing the complaint in this cause as against the defendants Charles R. Erdman, Jr., Commissioner of the Department of Economic Development of New Jersey, and William T. Vanderlipp, Deputy Administrator of the...

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