White, Corbin & Co. v. Jones
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Action by White, Corbin & Co. against William Martin Jones to enforce defendant’s statutory liability as a stockholder in the Rochester Lithographic & Printing Company. Verdict for plaintiff, and a motion for a new trial on exceptions was ordered to be heard in the appellate division in the first instance. Granted. See 34 N. Y. Supp. 203; 61 N. Y. Supp. 21.
1Opinion of the CourtSpring, J.
The defendant was a stockholder of the corporation known as the Rochester Lithographing & Printing Company. This company was formed May 10, 1887, and it was the result of the combination of two copartnerships,-—-Williard, Pitts & Moore and Geobel & Vredenburgh,—each of which had been engaged in business in the city of Rochester for some time. The chief part of the $50,000 capital stock of the corporation consisted of the properties of those two companies. The defendant purchased stock in the corporation in February, 1888, to the amount of $6,000, and later, when the corporation was on the…
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