Osgood v. . Maguire
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first department, affirming a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury for the plaintiff. (Reported below, 61 Barb., 54.) This action was upon two promissory notes given by the defendant, a resident of Boston, to the Columbian Insurance Company. No place of payment was mentioned in the notes.
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Appeal from the judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first department, affirming a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury for the plaintiff. (Reported below, 61 Barb., 54.) This action was upon two promissory notes given by the defendant, a resident of Boston, to the Columbian Insurance Company. No place of payment was mentioned in the notes. One was dated June 30, 1865, and the other was dated September 24, 1865. The former was payable twelve months from July 2, 1865, and the latter twelve months from date. The plaintiffs claim the notes as receivers of the insurance…
1Opinion of the Court
Earl, C.
In January, 1866, one Harbeck, a stockholder of the Columbian Insurance Company, commenced an action in the Supreme Court against the company, in which he prayed that the company might be dissolved, a receiver of its affairs appointed and an injunction issued, on the ground that it had violated its charter in the declaration and payment of a dividend out of its capital stock. The insurance company appeared in the action, and such proceedings were therein had that, on the twenty-second day of January, a receiver of its property and effects was appointed, and final judgment dissolving…
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