Legal Opinion

Berkshire Real Estate Co. v. Spaid

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided October 3, 1932No. 70—45Published

1Opinion of the Court

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

The motion to dismiss the complaint is denied.

An order will be entered consolidating this cause with Organizing & Developing Corporation, as Assignee of Mervin J. Spaid, v. Berkshire Real Estate Company, now pending on the Equity Docket as No. 57— 361,1 which, as admitted by both parties, involves the same issues as the present cause.

I. An election of remedies eannot, in my opinion, be predicated on the attitude taken by a defendant in his answer filed in another equity cause in the federal courts.

The defendant is not the actor in a case, and Equity Rule 30 (28 USCA §…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Cleveland Engineering Co. v. Galion Dynamic Motor Truck Co.District Court, N.D. Ohio · 1917
  2. Miller Saw-Trimmer Co. v. CheshireCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1924

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