Hyde Park Products Corp. v. Maximilian Lerner Corp.
New York Court of Appeals
POINTS OF COUNSEL
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Alexander, J.
Plaintiffs, Hyde Park Products Corp. and its president Edmund J. Lang, seek injunctive relief, an accounting and damages resulting from alleged “business torts” committed by defendants, Maximilian Lerner Corp. and its president Maximilian Lerner. They charge defendants with breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition and breach of the implied covenant to refrain from impairing or recapturing the “good will” of Hyde Park that had been transferred to Lang upon the sale of Lerner’s interest in the business.
We are called upon on this appeal to determine the…
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