Johnson v. Johnson

HORACE D. BALLAINE, Special-Justice.

This case is an outgrowth of the recent public disclosure that Nelson S. Corn, a former member of this Court, had by his own admission been guilty of taking bribes in certain cases since some time early in his first term of office, which commenced in 1935. The question we are now called on to decide is the effect of Corn’s participation, during the years when his corruption was undiscovered, in decisions of this Court in which there is no allegation or evidence that he acted corruptly. I11 short, the question is whether every decision in which he cast the…