Godley v. . Crandall Godley Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Gross-appeals from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 14, 1913, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Gross-appeals from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered January 14, 1913, modifying and affirming as modified a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term, The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The Special Term properly decreed the repayment by the defendant directors of all moneys, whether taken by themselves or paid by them to others under the false claim that such payments were salaries. (Keyes v. Smith, 183 N. Y. 376; Kennedy v.…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
This is a representative action by the plaintiff as stockholder of the defendant Crandall & Godley Company to compel its officers to account for the wrongful diversion of its money and property to themselves and others. It is the typical case of a dispute arising from the incorporation of a trading partnership followed by the death or incapacity of one of the members and the adoption by the others of measures to limit the dividends of the inactive shareholder to what they conceive he ought to have. I shall consider under separate heads the objections to the judgment earnestly pressed by the…
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