Matter of Murray Hill Bank
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 5, 1897, reversing an order of Special Term which dissolved a banking corporation, and also dismissing a proceeding instituted for the voluntary dissolution of said bank.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered April 5, 1897, reversing an order of Special Term which dissolved a banking corporation, and also dismissing a proceeding instituted for the voluntary dissolution of said bank. On the 11th of August, 1896, the superintendent of the banking department, considering a banking corporation, known as the Murray Hill Bank, to be in an unsound and unsafe condition to do banking business, closed its doors and took possession of its property. He at once caused an examination to be made into the…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The Appellate Division based its determination upon the ground that the proceeding for a voluntary dissolution of the Murray Hill Bank, instituted by its directors, abated upon the entry of a judgment dissolving said corporation in the action brought by the attorney-general. We think this is a sound conclusion, and that it is so well supported by the reasoning of the learned justice who prepared the prevailing opinion as to make further discussion of the subject unnecessary. (14 App. Div. 318.) We should affirm the order now before us for review upon that opinion, but for the fact that it…
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