CONNOLLY v. BELL


309 N.Y. 581 (1956)

David J. Connolly et al., as Receivers to Collect a Judgment in Favor of Burlington County Bridge Commission, et al., Respondents, v. Robert K. Bell et al., Defendants, and Theodore R. Hanff et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 17, 1956


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick W. R. Pride, Donald J. Nugent and Robert M. Lane for appellants.

A. Donald MacKinnon, Rebecca M. Cutler and Michael F. Orr for respondents.

William J. McDonald, Jr., Charles S. Bannerman and Covington Hardee for B. J. Van Ingen & Co., Inc., amicus curiæ, in support of respondents' position.

DESMOND, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE, JJ., concur with CONWAY, Ch. J.; DYE, J., taking no part.


CONWAY, Ch. J.

This is an action upon a judgment of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The following is a summary of the background of the litigation.

Sometime during 1946 a group of men — the defendants Bell, Christensen, Hanff, Ketcham, Nongard, Parks and Clifford R. Powell (but not the partnership of Ketcham & Nongard as such, and not the individual...

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