Sanborn v. Lefferts
New York Court of Appeals
Daniel A. Sanborn sued Marshall Lefferts, Edward A. Eaton, and others, in the city court of Brooklyn, to -charge them, as individually liable for a debt of the Ventilating Rubber Shoe Company, a corporation formed under the general manufacturing, &c. corporations act of 1848, and the' amendments thereto.
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Daniel A. Sanborn sued Marshall Lefferts, Edward A. Eaton, and others, in the city court of Brooklyn, to -charge them, as individually liable for a debt of the Ventilating Rubber Shoe Company, a corporation formed under the general manufacturing, &c. corporations act of 1848, and the' amendments thereto. The -complaint alleged that plaintiff was a resident of the city of Brooklyn ; that at the times therein -mentioned, the defendants were the trustees of the corporation ; that on September 1, 1869, before the time for filing the annual report, afterward mentioned, plaintiff made a specified…
1Opinion of the Court
Br the Court.
McCue, J.
[After briefly mentioning the nature of the action.]—Before passing to the main question presented by the appeal, I will notice a preliminary point made in the argument which involves the jurisdiction of the court.
Under the act of 1871, in relation to this court (chapter 283), jurisdiction was given when any of the parties resided in the county of Kings. The plaintiff resided in the city of Brooklyn when this action was commenced, but the defendant Lefferts did not.
In 1872 (chapter 688) the jurisdiction of the court *45was curtailed and limited in respect to actions like…
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- Merchants' Bank of New Haven v. BlissNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
- Miller v. . WhiteNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Lomer v. . MeekerNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Van Deusen v. . SweetNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
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