Legal Opinion

McClure v. Wilson

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided January 15, 1897PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal by tbe defendant, John W. Wilson, from an interlocutory 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 23d day of December, 1896, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term overruling his demurrer to the plaintiff’s complaint.

1Opinion of the Court

Rumsey, J.:

The complaint contains three causes of action. The first alleges that the Life Union was a domestic corporation, of which, on the 29th of November, 1893, the plaintiff was appointed receiver, and that he qualified. The complaint further alleges that from the 16th of June, 1891, to the 20th of May, 1892, the defendant was one of the directors of the corporation, and that as such he, and a majority of the other directors, agreed, in consideration of the payment to them by one Louis P. Levy of the sum of $15,000, that a certain number of the directors of the corporation would resign…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. National Trust Co. v. . GleasonNew York Court of Appeals · 1879
  2. Keep v. . KaufmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1874

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Astin v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1910
  2. McClure v. LawAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
  3. Hoag v. Lehigh Valley RailroadNew York Supreme Court · 1907
  4. Drexel v. HollanderAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906
  5. Genesee Savings & Loan Ass'n v. AllenAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901

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