Stokes v. Stokes
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, William E. D. Stokes, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of Hay, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, and also from an order bearing date the 8th day of March, 1897, and entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of May, 1897, denying the plaintiff’s motion to adjourn the trial of the…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, William E. D. Stokes, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 19th day of Hay, 1897, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, and also from an order bearing date the 8th day of March, 1897, and entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of May, 1897, denying the plaintiff’s motion to adjourn the trial of the action.
1Opinion of the Court
Van Brunt, P. J.:. This action was commenced on the 29th of December, .1892, under section 1781 of the Code, to charge the defendants with official misconduct as directors of the defendant corporation, the Hoffman House. The misconduct charged is that the defendant Stokes, *553while a director of the corporation and in. charge of its affairs, had misappropriated its funds and property and generally mismanaged its- affairs. This action has been before the General Term of the Supreme Court, and its scope has been- there determined; and it is conceded upon the part of the appellant that it has been…
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