Hepworth v. Union Ferry Co.
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Kings county. Action by Matthew Gaunt Hepworth against the Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn. The charter of the defendant expired pending the action, and from an order continuing the action against its directors as trustees defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBarnard, P. J.
On the 9th of June, 1889, the plaintiff handed to the defendant’s ticket-seller, in New York, money for a passage across the river to Brooklyn. The defendant kept his money, refused a ticket, and committed an assault on him, and forcibly put him in the street. The plaintiff commenced an action for the assault in October, 1889. The corporation denied the facts on which the plaintiff based his complaint, and, while the action was at issue and untried, the charter of the defendant expired by its own limitation. The Revised Statutes provide that on a dissolution of a corporation the directors…
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