Bradley v. Sweeny
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Charles Sweeny, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk óf the county of New York on the 28th day of March,.1907, denying his motion to strike out certain allegations of the complaint as irrelevant, redundant and scandalous.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a suit in equity to compel the defendant to account as manager of a “ pool or partnership or combination ” formed by plaintiffs and defendant for the purpose of buying and selling certain corporate stock. The plaintiffs' alleged .that the defendant caused the Federal Mining and Smelting Company to be incorporated under the laws of Delaware, to carry on the business of mining and smelting ores, and became a large stockholder of the corporation and controlled its management; that the plaintiffs became the owners of divers shares of the common and preferred stock of the…
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