Schroeder v. Post
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry A. Y. Post, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the cleric of the county of Kings on the 6th day of February, 1896, denying his motion to strike out certain portions of the plaintiff’s complaint as irrelevant and redundant.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The complaint in this action contains twenty-one numbered parargraphs. The cause of action is stated in paragraphs 1 to 15, inclusive. Those paragraphs allege, in substance, that the plaintiff was induced to subscribe for and purchase fifty shares of the preferred stock of the United Domestic Sewing Machine Company, in reliance *412upon a prospectus which the defendants caused' to be published and distributed, with their names thereon as directors, with intent to influence the public, and which prospectus was largely made up of statements that were not true in fact, and were…
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