Lockwood v. United States Steel Corp.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered December 6, 1912, which reversed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term overruling a demurrer to the complaint and sustained, such demurrer.
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Appeal, by permission, from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, entered December 6, 1912, which reversed an interlocutory judgment of Special Term overruling a demurrer to the complaint and sustained, such demurrer. The allegations of the complaint may be summarized as follows: The defendant is a foreign corporation organized under the laws of New Jersey and maintains in the county and state of New York an office for the purpose, among other things, of receiving certificates of its corporate stock for transfer upon its books and of…
1Opinion of the CourtWillard Bartlett, J.
Upon the question raised by this appeal, whether the defendant is under any legal obligation to transfer the stock as requested by the appellant, the Appellate Division avows its inability to find any direct authority. The learned judge who wrote the opinion below, however, treats the plaintiff as an ancillary executor whose authority is strictly limited to personal property within the jurisdiction of the court; and he argues that the situs of the property represented by the certificate of stock in question cannot be deemed to be in New York because under the authorities which he cites the…
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