Platt v. Bonsall
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Arthur 0. Platt, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 28tli day of June,. 1909, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case on a trial at the Westchester Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2Tth day of May, 1909, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Arthur 0. Platt, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 28tli day of June,. 1909, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case on a trial at the Westchester Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 2Tth day of May, 1909, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes,
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
The defendant Bonsall is the owner of practically all-of-the stock of his codefendant, the Innovation Trunk Company, of which corporation the plaintiff was at one time president and treasurer, having the management of its business. Differences arose between himself and Bonsall, whereupon he resigned his offices and relinquished the management. Thereafter Bonsall caused an action to be brought in the name of the corporation against the .plaintiff in the City Court of the city of New York for the alleged conversion of money belonging to the corporation, in which action he was arrested…
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