Leslie v. . Lorillard
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendants Lorillard and the Lorillard Steamship Company from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made May 14, 1888, which affirmed an interlocutory judgment entered upon an order overruling a demurrer to plaintiff’s complaint. The averments of the complaint are substantially as follows : The plaintiff is a stockholder of the defendant, the Old Dominion Steamship Company of Delaware.
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Appeal by defendants Lorillard and the Lorillard Steamship Company from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered upon an order made May 14, 1888, which affirmed an interlocutory judgment entered upon an order overruling a demurrer to plaintiff’s complaint. The averments of the complaint are substantially as follows : The plaintiff is a stockholder of the defendant, the Old Dominion Steamship Company of Delaware. In the year 1813 the Old Dominion Steamship Company of Hew York was a corporation organized under the laws of Hew York, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The defendants Lorillard and the Lorillard Steamship Company have demurred to the complaint on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. We are thus required to examine this pleading and to see whether, allowing to its averments all the force and truth such a ground of demurrer concedes, it may be sustained as the foundation of an action for equitable relief.
Our decision of the question will necessarily turn upon the validity of the contracts which are set forth. An extended discussion of the principles controlling the making and enforcement of…
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