Benedict v. Guardian Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Guardian Trust Company, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in fpvor of the plaintiffs, .entered in the office of the clerk of the'couiity of New York on the 19th day of November, 1900, upon the decision of the court' rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term overruling the demurrer to the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
There are eighteen causes of action set forth in the complaint, herein, each of which contains appropriate allegations'to charge the defendant with liability for false representations contained in a prospectus issued by it, upon the faith, of which representations the various parties, in whom the right of action originally vested, subscribed to stock of a corporation, known as the Chicago Zinc Mining Company. All of the causes of action were assigned to the plaintiffs. The defendant demurring to the complaint insists that an action for deceit will not lie against a corporation..…
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