Hill v. . Spencer
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city of Hew York, in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon an order denying a motion for a new trial, and directing judgment on a verdict.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Superior Court of the city of Hew York, in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon an order denying a motion for a new trial, and directing judgment on a verdict. (Reported below, 2 J. & S., 304.) This action was brought by the plaintiff against the defendant as a stockholder in “ The American and Mexican Silver Mining Company,” a corporation organized under the general manufacturing act (chapter 40, Laws of 1848), for the recovery of a balance due to him for services rendered to that company and for which judgment had been recovered against it,…
1Opinion of the Court
Lott, Ch. C.
The defendant was .a stockholder in the corporation known as “The American and Mexican Silver Mining Company,” organized under the act of the legislature of this State passed February 17th, 1848 (chap. 40), entitled “ An act to authorize the formation of corporations for manufacturing, mining, mechanical or chemical purposes,” and the acts amendatory thereof, when the services for which the judgment recovered against him in this action were rendered. The eighteenth section of that act provides that the stockholders of any company formed under its provisions “ shall be jointly,…
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