Case Name: HAROLD G. HOFFMAN, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. BOAKE CARTER, WCAU BROADCASTING COMPANY, ATLANTIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION, AND PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, DEFENDANTS, AND PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION, PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY AND COLUMBIA BROADCAST SYSTEM, INCORPORATED, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS
Court: New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1937-07-07
Citations: 118 N.J.L. 379
Docket Number: 
Parties: HAROLD G. HOFFMAN, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. BOAKE CARTER, WCAU BROADCASTING COMPANY, ATLANTIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION, AND PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, DEFENDANTS, AND PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION, PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY AND COLUMBIA BROADCAST SYSTEM, INCORPORATED, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 118
Pages: 379–380

Head Matter:
HAROLD G. HOFFMAN, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. BOAKE CARTER, WCAU BROADCASTING COMPANY, ATLANTIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION, AND PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, DEFENDANTS, AND PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION, PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY AND COLUMBIA BROADCAST SYSTEM, INCORPORATED, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.
Submitted February 12, 1937
Decided July 7, 1937.
For the plaintiff-appellant, Harry Green.
For the defendants-respondents, Pitney, Hardin & Skinner (Charles R. Hardin).

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The judgment under review will be affirmed, for the reasons expressed in the opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Bodine in the Supreme Court; except, however, that the affirmance as to Columbia Broadcasting System, Incorporated, is upon the ground that it was not served with process. We reserve decision as to whether the delivery at radio receivers in this state of programs transmitted by the Columbia company from its New York studio in any sense or to any degree constituted the doing of business by it in this state.
For affirmance — The Chancellor, Chief Justice, Parker, Lloyd, Case, Donges, Hetfield, Dear, Wells, WolfsKeil, JJ. 10.
For affirmance in part — Perskie, Rafferty, Cole, JJ. 3.
For reversal — Rafferty, Cole, JJ. 2.
For reversal in part — Hetfield, J. 1.