Maxwell v. Thompson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John F. Thompson and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Otsego on the 13th day of September, 1920, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial before the court at the Otsego Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Kiley, J.:
In 1890 the Bank of Pine Bluff, at Pine Bluff, Jefferson county, Ark., was organized under the Manufacturers and Traders Act of the laws of the State of Arkansas, with a fixed capital of $100,000, shares $25 each. (See Ark. Acts of 1868-69, No. 92; Kirby’s Digest Ark. Stat. § 837 et seq.) Albert Lane, appellants’ testator, a resident of Otsego county, N. Y., was one of the original incorporators; his subscription amounted to $2,000, or eighty shares of the stock at its par value. In 1896 the capital stock of the bank was reduced one-third; he surrendered his certificate and received…
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