RIOS v. ALTAMONT FARMS


100 A.D.2d 405 (1984)

Nelly Rios, Individually and as Legal Representative of Juan V. Rios, et al., Respondents, v. Altamont Farms, Inc., Appellant. (And Eight Other Actions.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

April 12, 1984


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rusk, Rusk, Plunket & Wadlin and Charles, Karalekas, McCahill & Wilson (S. Steven Karalekas of counsel), for appellant.

Howard Schell Reilly and Thomas A. Harnett (Gretchen Coll-Marti of counsel), for respondents.

MAHONEY, P. J., CASEY and WEISS, JJ., concur with KANE, J.; LEVINE, J., dissents in an opinion.


KANE, J.

Plaintiffs, Puerto Rican migrant farm workers and members of their families, seek in these actions to enforce default judgments entered in Puerto Rico against defendants, who are apple growers located in New York State. The Puerto Rican default judgments grew out of the 1978 apple harvest season in New York. In the spring of that year, as in prior years, the apple growers in question applied to the...

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