Emery v. De Peyster
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Samuel Emery, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 1st day of March, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint after a trial before the court and a jury at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The plaintiff sued to enforce against the defendant the statutory liability of a director of a corporation for the non-filing of an annual report in January, 1900. The allegation of the complaint is that the defendant, from May to November of the year 1900, was a director and president of the corporation, and that the plaintiff in July, 1900, was employed by that corporation to render certain services to it, and that he was wrongfully discharged and suffered damages by reason of such discharge. The defendant admits that he was a director and president of the corporation from May…
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