Sommer v. The Armor Gas & Oil Co.
New York Supreme Court
Action to compel issue of increased capital stock to shareholder.
1Opinion of the CourtPound, J.
Plaintiff, a stockholder in defendant corporation, institutes this action to compel the defendant to issue and deliver to her a certificate for nine shares, of the par *212value of twenty-five dollars a share, of its capital stock, being her allotted share of an increase of such stock. The corporation defends on the ground that the shareholders'were notified to pay for their allotted shares of the new or increased stock within a fixed, reasonable time, and that plaintiff failed to pay within the time fixed and has so lost her right thereto. The corporation still holds the stock, unissued or…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Stokes v. . Continental Trust Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Dousman v. Wisconsin & Lake Superior Mining & Smelting Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
3Cited by2 opinions
- Hoyt v. Great American InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1921
- Sommer v. Armor Gas & Oil Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1911