Oviatt v. Hughes
New York Supreme Court
THIS action was brought to recover of the defendants personally a certain debt due from the Rochester Iron Works to Rufus Keeler, and by him assigned to the plaintiff, on the ground that the defendants as trustees of said company did not file or publish the report required to be filed and published by the 12th section of the act to incorporate manufacturing companies, (Laws of 1848, p. 57; 2 R. S. 5th ed. p. 661,) of which this is one, in the year 1857. The company was…
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THIS action was brought to recover of the defendants personally a certain debt due from the Rochester Iron Works to Rufus Keeler, and by him assigned to the plaintiff, on the ground that the defendants as trustees of said company did not file or publish the report required to be filed and published by the 12th section of the act to incorporate manufacturing companies, (Laws of 1848, p. 57; 2 R. S. 5th ed. p. 661,) of which this is one, in the year 1857. The company was organized July 20, 1854, for the purpose of manufacturing Hughes’ Atmospheric Trip Hammer, and disposing of the same in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJames C. Smith, J.
This action is brought against the defendants as trustees of the Rochester Iron Works, a corporation organized under the act authorizing the formation of corporations for manufacturing and other purposes, passed 17th February, 1848. The object of the action is to enforce a liability imposed by the twelth section of the act, which provides that every company organized under the provisions of said act shall annually, within twenty days from the first day of J anuary, make a report as prescribed in said section, “and if any of said companies shall fail so to do, all the trustees of the company…
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