Legal Opinion

Schenectady and Saratoga Plank Road Co. v. . Thatcher

New York Court of Appeals

Decided June 5, 1854PublishedCited by 46 opinions

Appeal from a judgment of the supreme court sitting in the fourth district. The action was brought to recover a balance due on a subscription by the defendant for one hundred shares of plaintiff’s capital stock, and was tried at the Schenectady circuit before Justice Willard, without a jury.

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Appeal from a judgment of the supreme court sitting in the fourth district. The action was brought to recover a balance due on a subscription by the defendant for one hundred shares of plaintiff’s capital stock, and was tried at the Schenectady circuit before Justice Willard, without a jury. The plaintiff proved that on the 23d of Dec. 1848, the defendant with others subscribed a written instrument by which he agreed to take and pay for one hundred shares, at fifty dollars each, of the capital stock of a plank road company to be incorporated to construct a plank road from Schenectady to…

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[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] I cannot agree with the defendant's counsel, that it was necessary to…

2Cited by46 opinions

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  3. Hopkins v. . ClarkNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
  4. Mayor of New York v. Twenty-Third Street Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1889
  5. Myers v. CohnNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1893

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