Janeway v. Burn
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Henry Burn and others, as trustees acting under the provisions of the agreement for the dissolution of the National Wall Paper Company, 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 6th day of July, 1903, as modified' by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of July, 1903, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at' the New York…
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Appeal by the defendants, Henry Burn and others, as trustees acting under the provisions of the agreement for the dissolution of the National Wall Paper Company, 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 6th day of July, 1903, as modified' by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 6th day of July, 1903, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at' the New York Trial Term, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J. :
The action is brought on an assigned claim of stockholders of the National Wall Paper Company against the defendants as trustees, acting under an agreement for the dissolution of said company, for moneys had and received. It is alleged in the complaint and *167admitted by the answer that in the month of June, 1900, defendants were duly appointed, by an agreement of dissolution entered into between the stockholders, trustees for the dissolution of the company, which was a domestic corporation, and entered upon the performance of their duties as such. The plaintiff alleged and proved…
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