Eames v. Mayo
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages from one or the other of two defendants, for the breach of a contract alleged to have been made with the plaintiffs for the benefit of the defendant corporation, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where successive demurrers of the defendant Radiator Company to the first counts in the amended and substituted complaints were sustained (Webb and Kellogg, Js.) and subsequently, upon motion of the Radiator Company, final judgment was…
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Action to recover damages from one or the other of two defendants, for the breach of a contract alleged to have been made with the plaintiffs for the benefit of the defendant corporation, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where successive demurrers of the defendant Radiator Company to the first counts in the amended and substituted complaints were sustained (Webb and Kellogg, Js.) and subsequently, upon motion of the Radiator Company, final judgment was rendered for it (Curtis, J.) from which the plaintiffs appealed. The plaintiffs sued two defendants, Mayo and the Mayo…
1Opinion of the CourtGager, J.
Section 12 of our original Practice Act, now § 5641 of the General Statutes, provides that “any person may be made a defendant who has or claims an interest in the controversy, or any part thereof, adverse to the plaintiff, or whom it is necessary, for a complete determination or settlement of any questions involved therein, to make a party.” Section 3, Part 1, of the original rules framed to further the remedial intent of the Act, now § 120, p. 238 of the Practice Book, provides that “persons may be joined as defendants against whom the right to relief is alleged to exist in the alternative,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Craft Refrigerating MacHine Co. v. Quinnipiac Brewing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Goodrich v. StantonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Mitchell v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1901
- Boland v. O'neil, Admr.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1899
- Pettus v. GaultSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1908
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- Wladyka. v. City of WaterburySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1922
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