Legal Opinion

Keans v. New York & College Point Ferry Co.

City of New York Municipal Court

Decided June 15, 1896PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal ;by defendant from judgment for plaintiff on verdict directed by the court and from order denying new trial.

1Opinion of the Court

Van Wyck, Ch. J.,

The complaint alleges that .plaintiff was duly elected president of the defendant in March; that the annual salary of the president was duly fixed at $2,000, to commence on the following May 1st; that he duly entered upon and performed the services as president .until October, and that there is due hitn for such services so performed $966. These allegations were simply. denied by the answer for want of knowledge. or information sufficient to form- a belief, as to the truth thereof, and the answer *273did not set up bad faith or fraud in his election as president or in the making…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Barr v. New York, Lake Erie & Western RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1891

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Cooley v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903
  2. Haas v. Universal Phonograph & Record Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1912

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