Childs v. White
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, William H. Childs, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant. entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of February, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Hotchkiss, J.:
In October, 1910, plaintiff purchased from the domestic business corporation of White, Van Grlahn & Co. $50,000 of its preferred stock at par. In May, 1911, the company was adjudged a bankrupt. By this action plaintiff seeks to recover his loss from defendant, whom he alleges was' continuously a director of the company from its organization in December, 1908, until its failure. In brief, the negligence alleged in the complaint, evidence tending to prove which was given in plaintiff’s behalf at the trial, was, that defendant, knowing the company to be insolvent at its inception,…
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