ROBESON v. FANELLI


94 F.Supp. 62 (1950)

ROBESON et al. v. FANELLI et al.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

November 10, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. John Rogge, Michael B. Atkins, Bella Abzug, Alfred L. Tanz, and William L. Patterson, all of New York City, for plaintiffs.

Harry G. Herman, County Attorney of Westchester County, White Plains, N. Y., for defendants Gerlach, Fanelli and Ruscoe.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen. of New York State, for defendants Gaffney, Glasheen and Johnson; John P. Powers, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

Samuel Slutzky, of Peekskill, N. Y., for defendant Slutzky.

James J. Hanrahan, of Peekskill, N. Y., for defendants Boyle and Associated Veterans Council.

Cyril T. McDermott, of Peekskill, N. Y., for defendant McDermott.

Robert E. Dempsey, of Peekskill, N. Y., for defendant Flynt.

John J. O'Neil, of White Plains, N. Y., for defendant Zimmer. Newman Levy and George J. Mintzer, of New York City, of Counsel.

Bleakley, Platt, Gilchrist & Walker, of White Plains, N. Y., for defendant Field.

Leonard J. Rubenfeld, of Peekskill, N. Y., for defendant Rubenfeld; William F. Bleakley and James D. Hopkins, of White Plains, N. Y., of counsel.


RYAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, twenty-eight in number, seek by their complaint damages aggregating $2,020,000. as the result of alleged violations of the Civil Rights Statutes. 8 U.S.C.A. §§ 41, 43, 47(3) and 48. Eighty-four claims are pleaded in two hundred and twenty-six separately numbered paragraphs; the claims relate to the so-called "Peekskill riots" of 1949.

The sixteen defendants may be conveniently divided into two general classes. One...

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