New York & New Haven Railroad v. Schuyler
New York Court of Appeals
This is an action in the nature of a suit in equity, against Robert Schuyler and several hundred other defendants. The complaint was sustained by this court on demurrer, as will appear by reference to the reported case in 17 N. Y., 592. The object of the complaint was to have a large number "of alleged false and fraudulent certificates and transfers of pretended \stock of the company, made by Schuyler, and charged to be held by the defendants, adjudged spurious and void; and…
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This is an action in the nature of a suit in equity, against Robert Schuyler and several hundred other defendants. The complaint was sustained by this court on demurrer, as will appear by reference to the reported case in 17 N. Y., 592. The object of the complaint was to have a large number "of alleged false and fraudulent certificates and transfers of pretended \stock of the company, made by Schuyler, and charged to be held by the defendants, adjudged spurious and void; and to compel the certificates to be brought into court and canceled; and to enjoin the several defendants from further…
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
• The practice in this case has been anomalous, and, to some degree, without precedent. There is little danger, however, that any rule will be extracted from its complications likely hereafter to embarrass the courts. Unless, therefore, substantial rights have been violated by the course of procedure, I am opposed to remitting the case, or any of the parties to it, to another decade of litigation on any ground of mere irregularity.
The plaintiffs, after the discovery of the frauds of Robert Schuyler, found some three hundred persons in possession of supposed titles to portions of their capital…
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