Adams v. Slingerland
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry Slingerland, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of February, 1903, upon the decision of the court, rendered. after a trial at the New York Special Term, sustaining the plaintiff’s demurrer to certain defenses pleaded in the said- defendant’s amended answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiff is a creditor of the Morton Boarding Stables, a full liability business corporation, and he brings this action against the stockholders to enforce the liability imposed by section 6 of the Business Corporations Law (Laws of 1892, chap. 691), which provides as follows: “ All the stockholders of the corporation shall be severally individually liable to its creditors for all its debts and. liabilities.” In the complaint six causes of action are separately pleaded. The answer sets up separately as a defense to each that no action for the collection of the debt was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hall v. GilmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
- Barnes v. BlakeNew York Supreme Court · 1891
- Adams v. WallaceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1903