Hough v. Société Electrique Westinghouse de Russie
District Court, S.D. New York
At Daw. Action by David D. Hough against the Société Electrique Westinghouse de Russie and Robert D. McCarter, as liquidator of said Société Electrique Westinghouse de Russie. On motion to remand to state court, and on motion to dismiss as to the corporation. Motion to remand granted as to the liquidator, and denied as to the corporation.
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, District Judge.
When this case was originally argued, the question was whether the plaintiff could have any cause of action against the liquidator. The defendants said that the liquidator was so clearly not liable that no one could have sued him, except *636in a fraudulent effort to prevent removal to this court. The point was not presented, or at least not argued, that, granting the plaintiff had a possible cause of action against the liquidator, he must have known that he could not, under the New York Code, § 484, join him in the same action with the cause of action against the…
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