Novic v. Fenics

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

Nove and Gabriel Novic brought separate suits against the three defendants, charging them with having unlawfully conspired to destroy plaintiffs’ interests in a certain partnership and bringing the same to ruin in a bankruptcy proceeding. The appeal in each case is from the court’s refusal to remove the compulsory nonsuit which was entered at the close of the plaintiffs’ cases.

The two suits were tried together, the pleadings and evidence being substantially identical in each case. The plaintiffs’ proof established the following: The two Novics, who were cousins,…