Fleitmann v. United Gas Improvement Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles H. Werner and others, from part of an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 7th day of June, 1916, as resettled by an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 16th day of June, 1916.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
Appeal from so much of an order as denied a motion to require the plaintiff to separately state and number causes of action, or in the alternative to strike out certain allegations of the complaint as irrelevant.
The action is brought by the plaintiff as a stockholder of the Consolidated Street Lighting Company, a Maine corporation (hereafter called the Consolidated Company) to recover on its behalf damages alleged to have been sustained by the wrongful acts of the other defendants. The individual appellants, with the exception of Block, are directors of the Consolidated Company…
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