Lummis v. Crosby
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Samuel H. Lummis, as trustee, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Nassau Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Nassau on the 11th day of October, 1916, denying his motion for judgment on the pleadings.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, P. J.:
The defendant Crosby prevailed in his demurrer to the complaint, and the plaintiff failed in his motion for judgment on the pleadings. The plaintiff, as trustee in bankruptcy of a domestic corporation, brings this action against the former officers and the corporation, to nullify an alleged alienation of certain realty and certain moneys of the corporation to one of the defendants, and to recover the realty and the money that were ‘ ‘ lost to the creditors and wasted through the neglect and failure of the defendants to perform their duties as officers and directors of the…
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