Legal Opinion
Lesnik v. Public Industrials Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 7, 1944No. 377PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
This action began as a simple suit on a promissory note; but, in line with the economy of judicial effort encouraged by the new civil rules, the defendant was able, by filing counterclaims and a cross-complaint against additional parties brought into the case, to go to trial on the issue of whether it was defrauded by a conspiracy of directors of a company in which it held stock to refuse to declare dividends, thereby causing it financial ruin. Since the judge took this issue from the jury for lack of evidence to prove the allegations, this appeal raises the issue whether…
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