Briggs v. . Waldron
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in- the second, judicial department, entered upon an order made December 11, 1879, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in- the second, judicial department, entered upon an order made December 11, 1879, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirming an order denying a motion for a new trial. This action was brought by plaintiff, as a creditor, against defendant, as a stockholder of the Citizens’ Gas-light Company of Long Island City, a corporation organized under the act authorizing the formation of gas-light companies (chap. 37, Laws of 1848). The complaint contained three, counts. The first alleged an…
1Opinion of the Court
The complaint was clearly defective as to the notes made on the 14th of February and 11th of March, 1876. It does not state that the capital stock had not been paid in and a certificate filed at those dates, and the statement made in reference to the note of February 10 is not repeated in respect to the two subsequent notes. A motion was made on the trial to dismiss on the ground of the insufficiency of the complaint, but the ruling of the court on that motion was not excepted to, and we cannot, therefore, review it. No objection was made to any of the evidence on the ground that it was not…
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