Goldberg v. Berry
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This appeal requires a consideration of the principles governing defenses in a stockholders’ action. Several of such principles having been frequently stated in recent opinions, it will be unnecessary to here restate them at length.
Frederic R. Goldberg, one of the stockholders of the corporate defendant, brought this representative action for an accounting in behalf of himself and other stockholders similarly situated. The complaint consists of eight causes of action and contains the following allegations:
During the year 1920 the defendants William J. Berry and Henry P. Davy, directors of the…
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