Opinion
Submitted October term, 1940.
Decided April 3d 1941.
Appellant sought leave to pay condemnation money into the Court of Chancery pending an appeal from the award made by the commissioners. It withdrew the fund on order entered on notice, before an order dismissing its petition was entered. Held, the appeal from the order of dismissal is palpably frivolous and will be dismissed.
On appeal from the Court of Chancery.
Mr. Milton R. Konvitz and Mr. Samuel Roessler, for the appellant.
Messrs. Kanter Kanter ( Mr. Elias A. Kanter), for the respondents.
The appeal is from an order entered July 3d 1940, in the Court of Chancery dismissing the petition of the appellant seeking leave to pay money in a condemnation matter into the court pending an appeal from the award made by the commissioners. Before the order of dismissal was entered, the appellant had withdrawn the fund on its order entered on notice. There was, therefore, no res in court when the petition was dismissed. In equity it is the substance and not the form which controls. The appeal is palpably frivolous and will be dismissed.
We have, however, carefully considered the merits of the case and if we were at liberty to affirm we should do so, for the reasons stated by Vice-Chancellor Bigelow in Housing Authority of Newark v. Ryan, 127 N.J. Eq. 482.
The appeal is dismissed, with costs.
For affirmance — PARKER, CASE, DONGES, WELLS, WOLFSKEIL, JJ. 5.
For dismissal — THE CHIEF-JUSTICE, BODINE, HEHER, PERSKIE, PORTER, DEAR, RAFFERTY, HAGUE, JJ. 8.