Lewisohn v. Stoddard
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by citizens of New York as creditors of a Missouri corporation which had been dissolved, to collect their debt from certain of its former shareholders and directors; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, where demurrers to the complaint were sustained, Case, J., and the action dismissed.
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Action by citizens of New York as creditors of a Missouri corporation which had been dissolved, to collect their debt from certain of its former shareholders and directors; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, where demurrers to the complaint were sustained, Case, J., and the action dismissed. There were nine defendants: One, Selden P. Spencer, a citizen of Missouri, and another, A. H. Grief, a citizen of Kansas ; the others were citizens of Connecticut, one of whom was the administratrix of the estate of J. Yale Fairman, deceased, who was a citizen of Connecticut. The complaint…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
While the judgment appealed from is based on a ruling which sustained only some of the points taken in one of the sets of demurrers, and did not assume to deal with any other points, it should stand, if in any point whatever the complaint was incurably defective, whether the particular reasons which led the trial court to its conclusion were or were not sufficient.
The parties in the court below, and also here, have treated all the papers filed by each defendant, whether entitled demurrers or amended demurrers, or further demurrers, as constituting a single demurrer. We have therefore no…
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