Liebman v. Rosenthal

Motion by defendant for summary judgment pursuant to rules 113 and 114 of the Rules of Civil Practice.

The gravamen of the complaint is that plaintiff Liebman and his family, who were residents of Paris, France, and the defendant Rosenthal, who was also a resident of Paris, France, were sojourning at Bayonne, France, in the month of May, 1941; that the plaintiff was desirous of getting his family and himself to Portugal in order to escape the oncoming German Army; that the defendant represented that he was an intimate friend of the Portuguese consul in Bayonne, and that he, defendant, could…