Fuller v. O'Connor
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by the defendants from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, rendered in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, fifth district, borough of Manhattan.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Guriam.
The plaintiff has recovered a penalty under section 53 of the Stock Corporation' Law, providing that every stock corporation (except moneyed and railroad) having an office for the transaction of business within this State shall keep a stock book, containing certain information, which shall be open daily during business hours for the inspection of its stockholders, and that, for any refusal to allow such book to be inspected, the corporation and the officer so refusing shall forfeit $250-, recoverable by the person to whom refusal was made." Liability thereunder presupposes…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Henry v. Babcock & Wilcox Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908