Ratner v. Tavern-on-the-Green, Inc.

The plaintiff is an unincorporated association whose purpose, avowed in its title, is to secure justice for Morton Sobell. Sobell, as is well known, is presently incarcerated following conviction and sentence for treasonable acts. The corporate defendant is a restaurant and the individuals are interested and active in its management.

*565It appears that plaintiff in February of this year planned to give a banquet to enlist public support for plaintiff’s appeal for executive clemency for Sobell. It entered into negotiations with the corporate defendant for holding that banquet at defendant’s…