Sturges v. . Vanderbilt
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing as to defendant Vanderbilt a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. (Reported below, 11 Hun, 136.) The nature of the action and the facts are set forth sufficiently in the opinion.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, reversing as to defendant Vanderbilt a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. (Reported below, 11 Hun, 136.) The nature of the action and the facts are set forth sufficiently in the opinion. The expiration of the charter did not prevent defendants from continuing to defend the pending suit of Russell Sturgis in the name of the corporation. (Merrick v. Van Santvoord, 34 N. Y., 208; Laws of New Jersey, 1846, § 29; 1 N. Y. R. S., 600, § 9;…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
This action was brought to compel the' defendants to apply certain moneys received by them as stockholders of the New Jersey Steam Navigation Company, out of its assets, to the payment of a judgment alleged to have been recovered by the plaintiff's intestate against that corporation in April, 1871, and affirmed by this court in June, 1875 (62 N. Y., 625), upon which judgment, execution has been issued and returned unsatisfied. A decree was rendered in "favor of the plaintiff at Special Term, but it was reversed, at General Term on the ground that the judgment set up in the complaint was a…
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