Burden v. Burden
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Isaiah Townsend Burden, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 17th day of November, 1893, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Rensselaer Special Term, except the following provisions thereof: That the said preliminary or promoters’ agreement executed by the plaintiff and defendants Burden and Arts June 30, 1881, is binding and…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Isaiah Townsend Burden, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Rensselaer on the 17th day of November, 1893, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Rensselaer Special Term, except the following provisions thereof: That the said preliminary or promoters’ agreement executed by the plaintiff and defendants Burden and Arts June 30, 1881, is binding and effective upon the parties thereto individually and as stockholders and trustees of the Burden Iron Company. That the said…
1Opinion of the Court
Judgment affirmed, with costs, on opinion in the court below.
All concurred.
The following is the opinion of the court below :
Edwards, J.:
The careful examination by the court of the very voluminous testimony in this case, required for the purpose of making its rulings on 400 propositions of fact and of law which have been submitted to it by counsel, has involved so large an expenditure of time that it must confine any further consideration of the questions presented to some of those which are deemed to be of the most importance, and to which many of those passed upon are only subsidiary.
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