Yonkers Gazette Co. v. Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry B. Jones,-from a judgment of. the -County Court of "Westchester county in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 8.th -day of January, 1898, 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 6th day of January, 1898, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
This case is in many respects similar to that of The Yonkers Gazette Co. v. Taylor, decided by this court at the present term (post, p. 334), and the points considered in the opinion of Mr. Justice Hatch in that case require no further discussion here. There is one difference,-however, in regard to which something should be said.
At the time when the defendant signed the paper upon which it is sought to charge him as a subscriber to the stock of the plaintiff he received from a so-called promoter of the proposed corporation a paper signed by that gentleman and certifying…
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