Rosevelt v. . Brown
New York Court of Appeals
Action to recover of the defendant the amount of a debt due from "the Moravia Cotton Mill, a manufacturing corporation, on the ground that he was one of its stockholders at the time of its dissolution. The suit was brought in the superior court of the city of New-York, and tried before Justice Bosworth and a jury.
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Action to recover of the defendant the amount of a debt due from "the Moravia Cotton Mill, a manufacturing corporation, on the ground that he was one of its stockholders at the time of its dissolution. The suit was brought in the superior court of the city of New-York, and tried before Justice Bosworth and a jury. The plaintiff proved that the company was incorporated on the 15th of May, 1831, under and pursuant to the act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes, passed March 22, 1811; that it carried on business at Moravia, Cayuga county, till November, 1850 ; that proceedings…
1Opinion of the Court
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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The "Moravia Cotton Mill" was organized as a corporation on the 15th of May, 1831, under and in pursuance of the "act relative to incorporations for manufacturing purposes," (1 R.L. 1813, p. 247; 3 R.S. 220.) On the 4th day of October, 1850, it gave the note upon which this action was brought, and on the 6th day of May, 1851, it was…
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