ADAM v. JACOBS

No. 212, Docket 91-7466.

950 F.2d 89 (1991)

Laszlo ADAM, Dennis W. Brush, Michael J. Connelly, Jack Weinstein, Marcel Fournier, William S. Kingson, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Eli S. JACOBS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerson A. Zweifach, Washington, D.C. (Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., Dennis M. Black, Williams & Connolly, Washington, D.C., J. Douglas Richards, O'Sullivan Graev & Karabell, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Allen S. Joslyn, New York City (Pamela G. Fisher, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees Adam, Brush, Connelly, Weinstein and Fournier.

Richard A. Rossman, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Detroit, Mich., Eleanor N. Ewing, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., Christopher Dee, Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee Kingson.

Before MESKILL, WINTER and ALTIMARI, Circuit Judges.


MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Keenan, J., ordering defendant Eli S. Jacobs, the guarantor of payment on certain notes, to pay $4,744,285.23 to plaintiffs.

On appeal, Jacobs argues that the district court erred by addressing the merits of the plaintiffs' guarantee of payment argument without first addressing whether this action should have been...

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