Niles v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment, entered February 21,1902, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, whicli affirmed a judgment of Special Term sustaining demurrers to and dismissing the complaint. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from a judgment, entered February 21,1902, upon an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, whicli affirmed a judgment of Special Term sustaining demurrers to and dismissing the complaint. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The defendants being guilty of a breach of the duty which they owed to the plaintiff, which breach was followed by the destruction of the market value of the stock represented by him occasioning substantial damage, a cause of action in tort to recover such damages…
1Opinion of the CourtHaight, J.
The demurrers interposed to the plaintiff’s complaint were upon the ground that the facts stated therein were not sufficient to constitute a cause of action.
The allegations of the complaint are somewhat voluminous, hut so far as they are necessary to present the question to he determined upon this review they may he summarized and stated in substance, as follows ;
The plaintiff was a stockholder of the New York & Northern Eailroad Company, which owned and operated a railroad from its junction with the Manhattan railway, near 155tli street, in the city of New York, to a point on the New York &…
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