Cameron v. New York & Mount Vernon Water Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made December 14, 1891, which reversed an order of Special Term denying a motion to vacate" a preliminary injunction, vacated and set aside the order granting said injunction and granted the motion to vacate.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, made December 14, 1891, which reversed an order of Special Term denying a motion to vacate" a preliminary injunction, vacated and set aside the order granting said injunction and granted the motion to vacate. This action was brought to restrain the defendants (both individual and corporate) from making any transfer, assignment or other disposition of the capital stock of the Mount Vernon Water Company pendente lite, and from making or entering into any arrangement, contract or agreement for the…
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
The principal question presented is whether the defendant companies may consolidate or should be restrained from so doing. They are companies incorporated for the purpose of supplying water to the municipality and its inhabitants and their separate corporate existence is conceded. It is not denied that prior to May 1, 1891, there was competent statutory authority for the consolidation proposed (Laws of 1867, chap. 960; Laws of 1877, chap. 374), but it is insisted that the repeal of the acts which accompanied the revision of the Corporation Law took away the authority and left none in…
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