McClure v. Law
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William-H. Law, from a judgment of "the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 30th d^y of January, 1897, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court,- ■and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of February, 1897, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:, On the 16th day of June, 1891, the defendant became a director in the Life Union, an insurance corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York upon the co-operative or assessment plan. On the twenty-sixth day of December,, in the same year, he became the president of the corporation. A considerable time before that, and in the month of April, 1891, the Life Union had been engaged, through some of its directors, in an effort to obtain' ■control of another insurance company known as the Flour 'City Life Association of Rochester." To that end an agreement had been made…
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