Vincent v. Sands
The Superior Court of New York City
Appeal from a judgment. This action was brought by Victor Vincent, a judgment creditor of the New York and. Galena Lead Mining Company, a corporation organized under the act of 1848, to charge the defendant, Alfred B. Sands, as a trustee of said company, with the payment of the debt, upon the ground that no annual report had been filed as required by law.
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Appeal from a judgment. This action was brought by Victor Vincent, a judgment creditor of the New York and. Galena Lead Mining Company, a corporation organized under the act of 1848, to charge the defendant, Alfred B. Sands, as a trustee of said company, with the payment of the debt, upon the ground that no annual report had been filed as required by law. The claim of the plaintiff was fo.r services rendered to the company between March 1, 1865, and July 1, 1867, and the judgment recovered by him amounted to four thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty cents. The defendant,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.—Freedman, J.*
The statute under which this action is brought, requires every company organized under its provisions to make, publish and file, annually within twenty days from the first of January, a report of its condition, which report shall be signed by the president, and a majority of the *370trustees, and shall be verified by the oath of the president or secretary of said company. And it is further provided that if any of said companies shall fail so to do, all the trustees of the company shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and…
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