Cullen v. Friedland
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John Cullen, from á judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4th day of January, 1912, upon a dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of the plaintiff’s case on a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
Action by a judgment creditor of the defendant corporation to compel its directors to account for official misconduct and pay plaintiff’s judgment, or so much of it as equals the assets of the corporation which have been illegally diverted by them. The defendants, the Friedland-Nelson Company and Albert J. Atchinson, did not answer. The other defendants answered *125separately, and at the trial the complaint was dismissed, and plaintiff appeals.
The corporation, the Friedland-Nelson Company, was organized in September, 1903, for the purpose of manufacturing store fixtures. Its…
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