ALFRED E. DRISCOLL, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, ET AL., INFORMANTS AND PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS,
v.
BURLINGTON-BRISTOL BRIDGE COMPANY, A NEW JERSEY CORPORATION, ET ALS., DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS, AND SARJEM CORPORATION, AN ILLINOIS CORPORATION, AND ROBERT M. SHERRITT, DEFENDANTS.
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Argued October 8, 1951.
Reargued November 5, 1951.
Decided January 21, 1952.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mr. Milton M. Unger argued the cause for the appellants Gladys Parks, Robert K. Bell, Rickard W. Parks, Theodore R. Hanff, Thomas J. Christensen, Mildred Powell Meader, Paul R. Powell, Irene C. Powell, Clifford R. Powell, Richard C. Nongard, and Tuthill Ketcham and Roland H. Murray, individually and trading as Ketcham & Nongard (Messrs. Milton M. and Adrian M. Unger, attorneys).
Mr. Robert L. Hood argued the cause for the appellants Burlington County Bridge Commission, Howard R. Yocum, Daniel Lichtenthal, and Fred C. Norcross, Jr., individually and as members of the Burlington County Bridge Commission, the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County, Leroy Church, Frank A. Snover, Albert C. Jones, Stanley I. Russ and Clarence G. Price, individually and as members of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington County, Tacony-Palmyra Bridge Company and Burlington-Bristol Bridge Company (Mr. Thomas D. Begley, attorney).
Mr. Donald B. Kipp argued the cause for the appellants Chemical Bank & Trust Company and B.J. Van Ingen & Co. (Messrs. Pitney, Hardin & Ward, attorneys; Messrs. Frank C. O'Brien, William P. Reiss, and Robert P. Hazlehurst, Jr., on the brief).
Mr. James D. Carpenter argued the cause for the appellants Bacon, Stevenson & Co., Blair, Rollins & Co. (formerly Blair & Co.), Braun, Bosworth & Co., Dolphin & Co., Equitable Securities Corporation, John Nuveen, & Co., R.S. Pressprich & Co., Welsh, Davis & Co., and Robert Showers (Messrs. Carpenter, Gilmour and Dwyer, attorneys; Messrs. Thomas L. Morrissey and Milton A. Dauber on the brief) and for the appellant Stranahan Harris & Co. (Messrs. McCarter, English and Studer, attorneys).
Mr. Edward A. Markley argued the cause for the appellant Fitzgerald & Co. (Messrs. Markley and Broadhurst, attorneys; Mr. James J. Langan on the brief).
Mr. Harold A. Price argued the cause for the appellants Estabrook & Co., Harris, Hall & Co., Lyons and Shafto, and R.D. White & Co. (Messrs. Schenk, Price, Smith and King, attorneys).
Mr. Walter D. Van Riper, Special Counsel to the Governor and the Attorney-General, argued the cause for the respondents (Mr. Theodore D. Parsons, Attorney-General).
The Supreme Court of New Jersey.
The opinion of the court was delivered by VANDERBILT, C.J.
These appeals are before this court by way of certification granted on the petitions of the several defendants-appellants to review the judgment of the Chancery Division of the Superior Court entered in the cause. The facts, which it is necessary to recount in some detail, present a disillusioning picture of public officials surrendering their independence and abnegating...
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