Delahunty v. Hake
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
' Appeal by the defendants, Philip Hake and others, individually and as trustees of the Philip Hake Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of -the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of May, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of New York before the court without a jury.
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' Appeal by the defendants, Philip Hake and others, individually and as trustees of the Philip Hake Manufacturing Company, from a judgment of -the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of May, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at a Trial Term of the Supreme Court held in and for the county of New York before the court without a jury. The action was brought to recover a certificate for thirty shares of stock alleged to be wrongfully withheld hy the defendants after a demand therefor, or…
1Opinion of the Court
Van Brunt, P. J.:
This action was brought to recover from the defendant a certificate of thirty shares of stock. The plaintiff brings the action as receiver of one George W. Proctor Knott.
It appeared that on the 10th day of January, 1891, the said Knott entered into an agreement with one Philip Hake, by which, after reciting that Knott had been in the employ of Hake for many years, and had recently entered into the employment of a' corporation known as the Philip Hake Manufacturing Comjiany, and that said Hake was desirous that said Knott should remain with said corporation, the said Hake…
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