Hardman v. . Sage
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the ’ General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made January 23,1888, which reversed a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs entered upon the report of a referee. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The defendants are liable under the Manufacturing Act (§ 10, chap. 40, Laws of 1848), if the conditions of section 24 were complied with, or if their performance was excused.
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Appeal from order of the ’ General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made January 23,1888, which reversed a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs entered upon the report of a referee. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The defendants are liable under the Manufacturing Act (§ 10, chap. 40, Laws of 1848), if the conditions of section 24 were complied with, or if their performance was excused. (Veeder v. Mudgett, 95 N. Y. 295; Blake v. Wheeler, 18 Hun, 496, 500; Bonnell v. Griswold, 80 N. Y. 128, 139; W. A. Co. v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Follett, Ch. J.
This action was begun to recover from shareholders in the Ithaca Organ & Piano Company the amount due on four notes made by it, and the amount due on the note of a third person indorsed by the corporation, on the ground that the following section of the Manufacturing Act had not been complied with :
“ § 10. All the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act, shall be severally individually liable to the creditors of the company in which they are stockholders, to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively for all debts and contracts made by…
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