Treadwell v. United Verde Copper Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, the United Verde Copper Company and others, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 16th day of January, 1908, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The defendant United Verde Copper Company, a domestic corporation, was organized in 1883, with a capital stock of $3,000,000, divided into 300,000 shares of the par value of $10 each. The defendant Clark, from December, 1888, to 1899, held about ninety-five per cent of the stock in his own name and had complete control of the affairs of the corporation. The corporation owned certain mining properties in the Territory of Arizona, which, under Clark’s management, had become very valuable. In 1899, and for some time prior thereto, the corporation had been compelled to pay taxes in…
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- Wormser v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1906
- Drake v. New York Suburban Water Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
- Treadwell v. United Verde Copper Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
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