Cayuga Lake Railroad v. Kyle
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered in an action tried by the court. . The action was brought by the Oayuaga Lake Railroad Company against George A. Kyle, to recover the amount due upon a subscription for ten shares of stock of the plaintiff. The facts fully appear in the opinion delivered at special term given below, which was adopted at the general term.
1Opinion of the CourtRumsey, J.
The defendant and others were subscribers to the papers upon which it was intended to organize the plaintiff as a corporation; the defendant subscribing for ten shares of $100 each. The execution of the application was duly acknowledged by the defendant and others, and the same was filed in the office of the secretary of State July 1, 1867, and the organization of the plaintiff, so far as it could be done by that paper, was completed. In the paper thus filed, the object of the organization of the plaintiff, so far as related to the construction of. a railroad, is as follows :
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