Columbia Overseas Corp. v. Banco Nacional Ultramarino
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Columbia Overseas Corporation, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 2d day of August, 1921, denying plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, and granting defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, and dismissing plaintiff’s amended complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The complaint contains three similar counts for the recovery of damages for a breach of contract. In each count it is alleged that the plaintiff, a foreign corporation, was duly authorized to transact business in this State and had its *700principal office in the city of New York, and that defendant is a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of Portugal and was doing business in this State; that plaintiff through its agent, the Equitable Trust Company of New York, forwarded by mail to the defendant at Pernambuco, Brazil, a bill of exchange made and signed by it and…
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