Word: cropsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...financial burden obviously should have rested on a party other than the child or her father, one John J. McLaughlin, plumber and father of five other children. To recover past expense and to assure his daughter of future care, Plumber McLaughlin brought suit. Supreme Court Justice James Church Cropsey found against the Audley Clarke Co. in the sum of $15,000. But the McLaughlins will get not a cent. Each year henceforth Plumber McLaughlin will foot the bill for $150? cost of a new artificial leg?and pay the expenses incident to the trimming of the bone...
...this reason can the McLaughlins get no money: When the $15,000 decision was rendered against the Clarke company, that firm's counsel appealed. The higher court (Appellate Division) reversed Justice Cropsey's decision, thereby throwing out the verdict in favor of the McLaughlins. The McLaughlins could not start another suit because Justice Cropsey in his decision had absolved the Greiner Contracting Co., Inc., of all blame. Since there were but two possible defendants to the suit?Greiner and Clarke?and both had been freed of blame, no other party could be sued. In its decision the Appellate Division flayed...