Montague v. Hotel Gotham Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry L. Goodwin, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 23d day of May, 1910, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This action is brought to recover the sum of $5,000, paid to the appellant Goodwin by the Hotel Gotham Company on the 8th day of May, 1908, on the ground that prior to that time the company had failed to pay certain installments of rent due to its landlord under a lease in writing, and that the payment constituted a transfer of property to an officer, stockholder or director of the company for the payment of an indebtedness due to him from it and was prohibited by the provisions of section 48 of the Stock Corporation Law (Gen. Laws, chap. 36 [Laws of 1892, chap. 688], as amd. by…
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