Goff v. Whitney

McAdam, Ch. J.

The action is brought to charge the defendant, as stockholder of a manufacturing company, with a debt of the corporation, because no certificate was filed proving the amount of capital fixed and paid in (2 R. S. 6 ed. 504, § 38, old § 10). The established rule of interpretation is to construe these statutes strictly (77 N. Y. 1). This mode of construction will, therefore, be followed. The lease is dated February 11, 1884, and the liability that ripened into a debt was contracted then (Cox v. Gould, 4 Blatchf. 341).

The defendant became a stockholder July 1, 1884. There are…