People ex rel. Diffenbach v. Regents of the University of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 3d day of June, 1921, directed to the Regents of the University of the State of New York, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular their proceedings had in removing the relators and others as members of the board of trustees of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women.
1Opinion of the Court
Van Kirk, J.:
The relators were trustees of the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women. This institution was a financial failure, particularly in its educational department. There were at most but twenty-five or twenty-six students and some fifty or sixty professors, lecturers and instructors. Considerable effort was made to raise funds in various ways and mortgages were placed on both the real and personal property of the institution. In 1918 there was a large indebtedness above the mortgages and default was made in payments due on the mortgages. Foreclosure actions followed and all…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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