JUDSON v. PEOPLES BANK & TRUST CO. OF WESTFIELD


17 N.J. Super. 143 (1951)

85 A.2d 545

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO CONSOLIDATE THE CAUSE OF: THOMAS H. JUDSON, JR., ET ALS., PLAINTIFFS, v. PEOPLES BANK & TRUST COMPANY OF WESTFIELD, A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, ET ALS., DEFENDANTS. H. RUSSELL MORSS, JR., TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY OF TUTTLE BROS., INC., OF WESTFIELD, BANKRUPT, PLAINTIFF, v. JOHN C. EVANS, ET ALS., DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Decided December 19, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Ruback, Albach & Weisman (Mr. Joseph A. Weisman appearing), attorneys for Thomas H. Judson, Jr., et al.

Messrs. Bilder, Bilder & Kaufman (Mr. Walter J. Bilder appearing), attorneys for defendant, Bankers Commercial Corporation.


STEIN, J.S.C.

This is a motion for an order made under Rule 3:42-1 consolidating the above entitled causes. The test under the rule is whether these actions involve common questions of law or fact arising out of the same transaction or series of transactions. The plain purpose of the rule was to eliminate multiplicity of litigation and to enable the courts so to arrange pending causes that the same facts and transactions would not undergo the inconvenience...

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