Haight v. Naylor
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal by plaintiff from a judgment of this court, entered ■on the dismissal of the complaint on the trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The defendant Naylor, was sued as a director ■of “ The Co-operative Brush Company,” formed under the general manufacturing act, for an alleged debt of the company, for which it was claimed he was liable under that statute for the failure of the company within twenty days from the first day of January, 1872, to make and publish an annual report of its affairs. He was then a trustee, and the obligation upon which such liability was claimed to exist, was a draft or bill of exchange in these words :
$600.
New York, Dec. 7, 1871.
“ Ninety days after date, pay to the order of myself, six hundred…
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