Lee v. Jacob
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, William H. Jacob and another, 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 14th day of October, 1898, upon an order made at the Hew York Special Term adjudging the defendants’ answer to be frivolous and striking it out, and also from the order upon which such judgment was. entered. This appeal was transferred from the first department to the second department.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J. :
By this action the plaintiff seeks to charge the defendants with liability, as directors of a domestic corporation, for omitting to. file an annual report as required by the statute. The facts out of which the liability is claimed to arise are averred in the complaint, and are til ese : The Jacob & Skinner Realty Company was a domestic corporation, organized under the laws of this State, and having its place of business in the borough of Manhattan; that, being indebted to the plaintiff, it' made and executed its bond, dated May -24,. 1895, conditioned for the payment of $17,000 on…
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