Hoag v. Lamont
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the City Court of Brooklyn, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirming an order denying a. motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the City Court of Brooklyn, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon a verdict and affirming an order denying a. motion for a new trial. This action was brought against defendants as trustees of the “American and European Crystallized Egg Company,” a eorppration organized under the general law of 1848 (chap. 40, Laws of 1848), to recover a debt alleged to be due from, the company, upon the ground of' the failure to file, in 1871, the annual report required by law. The alleged liability arose upon a contract made by the company with…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
The judgment against the defendants, other than Walbridge, cannot be sustained without substantially overruling Landers v. Staten Island R. R. Co. (53 N. Y., 450). The cause of action did not arise within the city of Brooklyn or the county of Kings, and there was no claim upon the trial that either of the defendants, except W albridge, had at any time resided or that they liad been served with process within that city or county. The jurisdi ction of the court was made to rest, and was sustained by the City Court, upon the fact that Walbridge, one of the defendants at the time of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Landers v. . Staten Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1873
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