Brackett v. . Griswold
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant Chester Griswold, from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made February 22, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict.
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Appeal by defendant Chester Griswold, from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the third judicial department, entered upon an order made February 22, 1888, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. This action was commenced in 1873. The original defendants were six of the seven trustees of the “ Iron Mountains Company of Lake Champlain,” a corporation incorporated on the 6th day of August, 1869, by the filing on that day of a certificate under and in pursuance of the act (Chap. 40 of the Laws of 1848), known as the Manufacturing Corporations Act.…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
The death of the original plaintiff has eliminated from the complaint the causes of action founded on the statutory liability of the trustees for a failure to make a report, or for making a .false report, imposed by the twelfth and fifteenth sections of the general manufacturing corporations act of 1848. So, also, by the death of some of the original defendants, and the discontinuance of the action against others, the action has become one against Chester Griswold alone on the cause of action stated in the third, or conspiracy •count in the complaint. This cause of action was substantially…
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