Legal Opinion
Merigone v. Seaboard Capital Corp.
New York Supreme Court
Decided February 11, 1976PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBertram Harnett, J.
Time and again we are reminded that a lawsuit is not a game. It is a serious enterprise, where the social end of justice preponderates. Yet, we do have procedural rules which may serve proper purposes in the doing of justice. How to separate the game from the justicial purpose?
Here we have an action on a $15,000 promissory note payable on demand after December 30, 1966. Default judgments have been entered against the maker Seaboard Capital Corp., and the guarantors Allan Frank and Peter S. Myers, in a previous action on this note. Only guarantor Bernard Shwidock is now defending this case.
Shwi…
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- Gardner v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1965
- Lawlor v. RobertsNew York Supreme Court · 1969
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