Duane Jones Company, Inc., and v. Frank G. Burke, Jr., Respondents Joseph Scheideler

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals modified the lower courts' judgments, reversing the dismissal of the complaint against individual defendant Joseph Hayes and reinstating the trial court's judgment against him, while also reversing the judgment against the corporate defendant Scheideler, Beck & Werner, Inc. and dismissing the first and fourth causes of action against that corporation; the court affirmed liability of the remaining individual defendants and upheld the dismissal of defendant Burke.