Springdale Corp. v. Fid. Union Trust Co.
| Decision Date | 13 January 1939 |
| Docket Number | No. 68.,68. |
| Citation | 3 A.2d 565,121 N.J.L. 536 |
| Parties | SPRINGDALE CORPORATION et al. v. FIDELITY UNION TRUST CO. |
| Court | New Jersey Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Essex County.
Suit by the Springdale Corporation and William T. Vanderlipp against the Fidelity Union Trust Company for declaratory judgment determining who was entitled to receive certain moneys received by William T. Vanderlipp as rent from tenants in an apartment house belonging to the Springdale Corporation. From the judgment, the plaintiffs appeal.
Affirmed.
Andrew Foulds, Jr., of Passaic, for appellants.
Hood, Lafferty & Campbell, of Newark (Charles Danzig, of Newark, of counsel), for respondent.
This is an appeal from an order entered in the Essex County Circuit Court striking out a complaint filed by the Springdale Corporation, hereinafter called the Corporation, and William T. Vanderlipp, seeking relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act. R.S.1937, 2:26-66 et seq.
The Corporation, of which Vanderlipp is the president and principal stockholder, owns a certain apartment house in Newark. A mortgage on said premises is held by the Fidelity Union Trust Company, as trustee. Under the terms of an agreement with a previous owner, the defendant Fidelity Union Trust Company, individually and not as trustee, was empowered to collect rents from the apartment house, and had appointed Vanderlipp as its agent for this purpose.
On February 23, 1937, the defendant Trust Company notified Vanderlipp of the termination of his agency. On February 27, 1937, the Corporation notified the defendant Trust Company of the termination of its authority to collect rents. On March 1, 1937, Vanderlipp received as rent from various tenants the amount of $1,155, which sum he now holds.
The plaintiffs, alleging a dispute between the Corporation and the Trust Company as to their rights in the funds held by Vanderlipp, filed their complaint asking the Essex County Circuit Court to enter a declaratory judgment determining who was entitled to receive the moneys. The defendant opposed the action by a motion to strike the complaint, and from an order sustaining the motion this appeal is taken by the plaintiffs.
Generally, the grounds of appeal attack two propositions of law relied on for the motion in the lower court; (1) that by nature the plaintiffs' action is equitable and without the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court; (2) that the plaintiffs have an available remedy in interpleader and are therefore not entitled to relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act.
The Declaratory Judgment Act (Revised Statutes, Title 2, Chapter 26, Article 6) is declared by its own terms to be remedial, and to have for its purpose the affording of relief from...
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