WILDENSTEIN & CO. v. GILBERT


217 F.Supp. 816 (1962)

WILDENSTEIN & CO., Inc., Plaintiff, v. Rhoda GILBERT and Day & Meyer, Murray & Young Corp., Defendants. DAY & MEYER, MURRAY & YOUNG CORP., Interpleading Plaintiff, v. John J. McCLOSKEY, Sheriff of the City of New York, Newhouse Galleries, Inc., E. L. Bruce Co. (Incorporated), United States of America, Wildenstein & Co., Inc. and Edward M. Gilbert, Interpleading Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

November 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, for plaintiff.

Duke & Landis, New York City, for Day & Meyer, Murray & Young Corp., defendant and interpleading plaintiff.

Isidor E. Schlesinger, New York City, for defendant Rhoda Gilbert.

Sidney Posner, New York City, for defendant John J. McCloskey, Sheriff of City of New York.

Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Chrystie, New York City, for interpleading defendant E. L. Bruce Co. (incorporated).

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of New York, New York City, for interpleading defendant United States.

Lyman Stansky, New York City, for interpleading defendant Newhouse Galleries, Inc.


THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.

The government, relying on § 1444 of Title 28, U.S.C., removed this case from the Supreme Court of the State of New York and now moves to dismiss itself as a party defendant; for permission to intervene as a party plaintiff and for an order enjoining the interpleaded defendant, Newhouse Galleries, Inc., from proceeding in any other action but this one.

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