Newark Ladder, C. v. Furniture Workers, C.

At the corner of Springfield avenue and South Thirteenth street, Newark, the Grunt family conducts a ladder and scaffold business. The business is organized in three parts — a retail store where small ladders, as well as paints, are sold; a wholesale or special order department for extension ladders and scaffolds for painting contractors, and a shop in which ladders are manufactured. Three corporations are or were used as instrumentalities for the more convenient handling of the family enterprise — S. Grunt, Inc., for the retail end, Newark Ladder and Bracket Sales Co. for the wholesale…