Blake v. Clausen
New York Supreme Court
Action to enforce statutory liability of trustee for failure to make annual report of condition of manufacturing corporation.
1Opinion of the CourtMcAdam, J.
The action is to charge the defendant, as trustee of the Brewers’ Ice Company, a corporation formed under the Hanufacturing Act of 1848, with $5,349.21, a balance due on a debt of $6,000 contracted December 22, 1886, for money loaned to the company by plaintiff.
The liability sought to be enforced is that specified in section 12 of the act (3 Edm. R. S. 735, superseded by Laws of 1875, chap. 510; Victory, etc., Co. v. Beecher, 97 N. Y. 651), for failure to make and publish annual reports of the condition of the corporation for the years 1887, 1888 and 1889. The statute provides that, upon the…
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