Scruggs v. Cotterill
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Controversy by Richard M. Scruggs against George W. Cotterill and others, submitted on agreed statement of facts. Judgment for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtHatch, J.
From the facts stated in the submission, it appears that the plaintiff and William F. Vandervoort, deceased, were associated together in the dry goods business, at St. Louis, Mo., and had been for 40 years and upward, first as partners, and afterwards as a corporation under the name of the Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney Dry Goods Company, to which corporation the property and business of the partnership was transferred. The stock of the corporation was divided into 5,000 shares, of $100 each, of which stock Scruggs held 3,000‘shares, and Vandervoort and Barney each 1,000. Barney died on or…
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