Legal Opinion
Buker v. Steele
New York County Courts
Decided July 11, 1896PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Action by Amos M. Buker against John M. Steele for a statutory penalty. Judgment for plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtSutherland, J.
This action is brought to recover penalties, under section 29 of the stock corporation law (chapter 564, Laws 1890, as amended by chapter 688, Laws 1892), which reads as follows:
“Every stock corporation shall keep at its office, correct books of account of all its business and transactions, and a book to be known as the stock-book, containing the names, alphabetically arranged, of all persons who are stockholders of the corporation, showing their places of residence, the number of shares of stock held by them respectively, the time when they respectively became tne owners thereof, and the…
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