Mink v. Keim

The question tendered to us on this appeal is essentially one of Supreme Court practice, since at bottom it involves the efficacy of attempts made by plaintiffs to escape the effect of an outstanding Supreme Court order of consolidation.

The four plaintiffs above named brought, in 1939, three separate personal injury actions (Marion Mink and Herman Mink, her husband, suing together) against the owners and drivers of two automobiles which had been in collision and in one of which automobiles three of the plaintiffs here (Marion Mink, Helen Lefkowitz and Abraham Altschuler) had been passengers.…