Schulz v. Raimes & Co.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal by defendant from an order of the City Court of the city of Few York, denying a motion to stay the plaintiff from further prosecuting this action until the termination of the present war between the empire of Germany and the United States of America, which motion was made upon the ground that the plaintiff is an alien enemy.
1Opinion of the CourtLehman, J.
The plaintiff herein is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New Jersey. Its capital stock consists of fifty shares. Forty-seven shares are owned by a German corporation and a German citizen resident in Germany. One share each is owned by W. H. Hoople, R. S. D’Espard and A. H. Posselt. Mr. Posselt is the manager of the corporation and is an Austrian citizen who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States and who resides in this country. He has always been employed and paid by the German corporation to look after its interests in this country.…
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