Ernst v. Rutherford & Boiling Springs Gas Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from special term. Action by Morris L. Ernst and another against the Rutherford & Boiling Springs Gas Company, otherwise called the New York, Rutherford & Suburban Gas Company, and others. From an interlocutory judgment sustaining demurrers to the complaint, plaintiffs appeal. Reversed as to the gas company.
1Opinion of the CourtCullen, J.
The complaint states that the plaintiffs are the owners and holders of stock of the defendant the gas company, which company is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New Jersey; that, subsequent to the plaintiffs becoming stockholders, Fennessey, one of the individual defendants, became the owner, through himself and his associates, of more than one-half of the stock of the-corporation, and caused himself and his friends to be elected directors thereof; that said Fennessey called a meeting of the board of directors" for the purpose of increasing the capital stock of the…
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