Commercial Travelers' Home Ass'n v. McNamara
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Catherine E. McNamara, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Broome on the 24th day of October, 1903, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Broome Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The plaintiff was chartered in 1892 for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a home for indigent commercial travelers who might become members of the association.
In various ways the committee of the plaintiff raised in money, according to one witness, $200,000, and according to. another , $100,000, and purchased a tract of land near the city of Binghamton. In beautifying the grounds and building the foundation there was expended approximately $30,000 of the fund. The balance of either $70,000 or $170,000 has been lost either through peculation or mismanagement of the…
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