Pray v. Todd
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, John A. Pray and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Yew York on the 27th day of January, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Yew York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 29th day of January, 1902, denying the plaintiffs’ motion for a. hew trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The action is brought to recover the penalty prescribed by section 52 of the Stock Corporation Law (G-en. Laws, chap. 36, and Laws of 1890, chap. 564, as amd. by Laws of 1892, chap, 688) for the neglect or refusal of the treasurer of a corporation to furnish a statement of the affairs of the corporation to a stockholder as therein prescribed.
The •‘ C. A. Blanchard Company ” was a. domestic business corporation and its capital stock exceeded $100,000. More than three per centum of the capital stock of this company was issued to C. A. Blanchard, who held and owned the same. He owed…
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