Bonnell v. . Griswold
New York Court of Appeals
These are appeals from judgments of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department in favor of defendants, Wheeler, Griswold & Hoysradt, entered upon orders reversing orders overruling demurrers on the part of said defendants to the complaints in the actions above entitled, and directing judgments for said defendants upon demurrer. (Reported below, 3 T. & C., 557.) The actions were substantially alike.
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These are appeals from judgments of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department in favor of defendants, Wheeler, Griswold & Hoysradt, entered upon orders reversing orders overruling demurrers on the part of said defendants to the complaints in the actions above entitled, and directing judgments for said defendants upon demurrer. (Reported below, 3 T. & C., 557.) The actions were substantially alike. They were brought by plaintiffs as creditors of “ The Iron Mountain Company of Lake Champlain,” a corporation organized under the general manufacturing act (chap. 40,…
1Per curiam
Assuming, without deciding, that causes of action against trustees of a corporation under the twelfth and fifteenth sections of the manufacturers’ act referred to, may be united in one complaint, and that a false report may be regarded as no report, yet in order to justify such union, each of the causes of action must affect all the parties to the action. (Code, § 167.) For an omission to file any report all the trustees are liable, jointly and severally, to the creditors; for making and filing a false report, only such of the trustees as do the act are liable. The language of the act is “…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Dillon v. BarnardSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
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- Jordan v. . National Shoe and Leather BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
- Bogardus v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
- Donovan v. BoeckSupreme Court of Missouri · 1909
- Bonnell v. . GriswoldNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Blaine v. Publishers George Knapp & Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1897
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