Tracy v. Yates
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal by the defendant from a judgment rendered at a special term, upon the verdict of a jury, The plaintiff, claiming to b.e a creditor of ah alleged corporation called “ The New-York Croton and Steam Faucet Manufacturing Company,”1 on certain promissory notes of said company, bearing date from November 28, 1849, to January 14,1850, recovered a judgment in the New-York common pleas against said company, on the 19th of June, 1850, for $3,239.60, and an execution…
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This was an appeal by the defendant from a judgment rendered at a special term, upon the verdict of a jury, The plaintiff, claiming to b.e a creditor of ah alleged corporation called “ The New-York Croton and Steam Faucet Manufacturing Company,”1 on certain promissory notes of said company, bearing date from November 28, 1849, to January 14,1850, recovered a judgment in the New-York common pleas against said company, on the 19th of June, 1850, for $3,239.60, and an execution thereon was returned unsatisfied. He then brought this action against the defendant, claiming that she was a…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Roosevelt, J.
Mrs. Yates is sued as one of the alleged stockholders of an insolvent manufacturing corporation. She denies the allegation that she was' a stockholder. The cause was tried at a circuit court held in December, 1851. Under the ruling of the judge, a verdict was rendered for the plaintiff for $3605.61; and a bill of exceptions having been taken by the defendant, the cause is now brought before the general term on appeal. Although a great many points’ have been raised and argued, the controlling question, it seems to me, and the only one necessary to be disposed of is,…
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