Windmuller v. Standard Distilling & Distributing Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Standard Distilling and Distributing Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Queens on the 21st day of January, 1904, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial before the court without a' jury at the Queens County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The Standard Distilling Company and the Spirits Distributing Company were two New Jersey corporations engaged in business *247of substantially the same character. Under the laws of New Jersey the Standard Company had the right to purchase the stock of the Spirits Company. The Standard Company did purchase 31,500 shares thereof, and in consideration of the transfer executed an agreement in Writing indorsed upon the certificates of two classes of the stock of the Spirits Company, which read as follows:
“ For good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby…
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