Hornstein v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
New York Court of Appeals
I. The directors and officers of Paramount are accountable to it for haying caused its funds to be employed in the commission of a crime. (Pollack y. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., 266 App. Div. 118; Roth v. Robertson, 64 Mise. 343; Runde y. Bankers Trust Go., 6 N. Y. S. 2d 623; Shea v. Mabry, 69 Tenn. 319; People ex rel. Perkins v. Moss, 187 N. Y. 410; Sagalyn y.
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I. The directors and officers of Paramount are accountable to it for haying caused its funds to be employed in the commission of a crime. (Pollack y. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., 266 App. Div. 118; Roth v. Robertson, 64 Mise. 343; Runde y. Bankers Trust Go., 6 N. Y. S. 2d 623; Shea v. Mabry, 69 Tenn. 319; People ex rel. Perkins v. Moss, 187 N. Y. 410; Sagalyn y. Meekins, Packard & Wheat, Inc., 290 Mass. 434; Mannheimer v. Keehn, 41 N. Y. S. 2d 542; London Trust Co. v. Mackenzie, 62 L. J. Ch. 870; Gilbert v. Finch, 173 N. Y. 455; Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Go. y. Gove, 303 Mass. 1.) II. The…
1Per curiam
This stockholders ’ derivative action was brought in behalf of Paramount Pictures, Inc., to compel its officers and directors to repay to its treasury sums they had paid therefrom to labor union officials. Plaintiffs invoke the following provision of Penal Law, section 380: ££ A person who gives or offers to give any money or other thing of value to any duly appointed representative of a labor organization with intent to influence him in respect to any of his acts, decisions, or other duties as such representative, or to induce him to prevent or cause a strike by the employees of any person…
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