Groff v. Rome Metallic Bedstead Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, the Rome Metallic.Bedstead Company and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 20th day of June, 1904, denying the said defendants’ motion to change the place of trial of the action from the county of Hew York to the county of Oneida for the convenience of witnesses.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughxin, J. :
The defendant companies are domestic corporations having their principal and only places of business at Rome, Oneida county, H. Y. The Rome Metallic Bedstead Company, which for brevity will be called the Rome Company, was organized in 1895 with a capital stock of 1,000 shares of the par value of $50 each, and its business is the manufacture of iron bedsteads. It has been successful, and at the times of the "transactions in question had a large surplus, which made its stock worth several times its par value. It does not appear that there have been any actual sales of the stock…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jacobs v. DavisAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
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