National Union Bank v. Landon
New York Supreme Court
PPBAL by the defendants Landon, Bostwick and Conklin from a judgment on the report of a referee. The defendants Spencer, Merwin and Mark W. White were not served with process, and did not appear in the action. Henry S. White and Sardam were served with process, but did not answer the complaint ; no judgment was entered against them until the determination of the whole action. The other defendants, Landon, Bostwick, Conklin and Fuller, defended the action.
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PPBAL by the defendants Landon, Bostwick and Conklin from a judgment on the report of a referee. The defendants Spencer, Merwin and Mark W. White were not served with process, and did not appear in the action. Henry S. White and Sardam were served with process, but did not answer the complaint ; no judgment was entered against them until the determination of the whole action. The other defendants, Landon, Bostwick, Conklin and Fuller, defended the action. The defendant Fuller died before judgment. Landon and Bostwick resided in Connecticut, and Conklin in Michigan, and neither of them were…
1Opinion of the Court
*193 By the Court,
Mullin, J.
I cannot doubt but that the defendants were partners in getting up stock for another blast in the furnace at Eedwood, running such furnace and making iron therefrom, under the agreement of 18th November, 1863.
The defendants had been stockholders in the corpora-ration known as the Eedwood Iron Manufacturing' Company. That company had been dissolved, and the defendants became, in some way, owners of the furnace and other property formerly owned by such corporation suitable for the manufacture of iron. The defendants then had a community of interest in the property, and…
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