Kassel v. Empire Tinware Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Separate appeals by the defendants, Empire Tinware Company and Samuel Breakstone and another, from two orders of the Supreme Court, made at the Kangs County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 16th day of March, 1917, denying their separate motions for judgment on the pleadings, consisting of an amended complaint and the answers thereto.
1Opinion of the Court
Blackmar, J.:
The question before the court is whether the complaint states facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff’s intestate and the indi*178vidual defendants owned all the capital stock of the defendant corporation; that the amount issued was $24,000 in par value, of which each owned $8,000; that on February 17, 1912, the three parties made a formal written contract which, after reciting that they owned in equal shares all the capital stock of the company; that the amount in par value owned by each was $8,000 but that it was then worth…
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