Brown v. Britton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Walter Brown and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 30th day of April, 1898, upon the report of a referee dismissing the complaint upon the merits and adjudging that the defendant Barker recover from the plaintiffs the sum of $531.25 costs.
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Appeal by the plaintiffs, Walter Brown and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 30th day of April, 1898, upon the report of a referee dismissing the complaint upon the merits and adjudging that the defendant Barker recover from the plaintiffs the sum of $531.25 costs. In 1875 the Thousand Island Camp Meeting Association was duly incorporated pursuant to chapter 117 of the Laws of 1853 and the acts amendatory thereof, and in 1879, by chapter 4 of the Laws of that year, the name of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, J.:
This action, which was commenced August 28,1897, was brought to enforce the specific performance by the defendant Britton of the agreement of November 9,1894, by means of an injunction restraining him from selling and transferring his fifty shares of stock in the Thousand Island Park Association, and the defendant Barker from purchasing the same; and the aid of a court of equity is invoked upon the usual ground of irreparable injury for which the law furnishes no adequate remedy.
*62The injury which the plaintiffs allege as liable to result from the sale and purchase of the stock in…
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- Williams v. . MontgomeryNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Johnson v. . BrooksNew York Court of Appeals · 1883
- Matter of Petition of Argus Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1893
- Morgan v. . the City of BinghamtonNew York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Hey v. DolphinNew York Supreme Court · 1895
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- Bateman v. StrausAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
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