Assets Collecting Co. v. Myers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Emanuel J. Myers and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 5th day of October, 1915, denying their motion for an extra allowance.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This action was brought for the large sum of $1,040,000 claimed as damages for a fraudulent conspiracy on the part of defendants to throw the firm of Otto Heinze & Co. into bankruptcy. The action was certainly an unusual one, and may reasonably be called a difficult and extraordinary one. (See Code Civ. Proc. § 3253.) There were three complaints, an original one and two amended ones, with corresponding answers and replies. There were a large number of motions of various kinds, and finally the complaint was dismissed as the result of a motion for judgment on the pleadings. While…
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