Sigua Iron Co. v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Harold P. Brown, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the, office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 20th day of November, 1900, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 15th day of November, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The action was brought to recover calls made upon the defendant as thé owner of sixty shares of the assessable capital stock of the plaintiff corporation. The first objection taken by the appellant is that there was no sufficient proof that this certificate for sixty shares of stock had been issued to the defendant or that he was the owner of the shares. The evidence was partly contained in the stock book of the corporation, which is made competent evidence by section 929 of the Code of Civil Procedure. Upon one of the stubs in that book there was a statement that certificate No.…
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