People v. Knapp
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The People of the State of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court, in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Broome on the 1st day of April, 1911, allowing the defendant’s demurrer to an indictment.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The defendant was copartner with three other individuals carrying on the business of private banking under the firm name of Knapp Brothers, and was also one of the directors of the Binghamton Trust Company, which at the time of the transactions in question had a capital of $300,000 and a surplus of like amount.
The indictment charges the defendant with having violated section ' 297 of the Penal Law, which prescribes that every director of a moneyed corporation who “wilfully does any act as such director which is expressly forbidden by law, or wilfully omits to perform any duty…
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