Mawhinney v. Bliss
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Edmund 0. Converse, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Hew York on the 12th day of May, 1906, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the ¡New York Special Term, overruling the said defendant’s demurrer to the amended'complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a representative action for an accounting'by the appellant and others, as members of axreorganization committee under a reorganization agreement involving the American Cotton Company and ten subsidiary companies. The ground of the demurrer relied upon and argued in behalf of the appellant at Special Term and ■ here, is that the complaint fails to state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The reorganization agreement is-annexed to and made part of the complaint, as is also a plan of reorganization prepared by the reorganization committee and a statement of…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Kittinger v. . Buffalo Traction Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Industrial General Trust, Ltd. v. . TodNew York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Wood v. . AmoryNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Nichols v. RogersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Meyers v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
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- Mawhinney v. BlissAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908