Goldstein v. Lightner

The second cause of action was properly dismissed. Concededly, this action is identical with that pleaded in the case of Strassburger v. Singer Mfg. Co. (263 App. Div. 518). In the cited case the complaint, which sought a judgment to require this same corporate defendant, a New Jersey corporation, to pay out in dividends part of a large surplus not needed for the business of the corporation, was dismissed by this court. The basis of the ruling in the Strassburger case was that the subject matter involved the internal management of a foreign corporation over which the courts of this State…