In re Greene
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Pinelawn Cemetery and others from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 25th day of June, 1912, ordering a visitation of Pinelawn Cemetery, directing the filing of an inventory and account and restraining sales of the property of said cemetery corporation.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
Section 16 of the Membership Corporations Law (Consol. Laws, chap. 35; Laws of 1909, chap. 40) provides that “All membership corporations with their books and vouchers shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of a justice of the Supreme Court or of any person appointed by the court for that purpose. If it appears to such court by the verified petition of a member or creditor of any such corporation that it or its directors, officers or agents have misappropriated any of the funds or property of the corporation, or diverted them from the purpose of its incorporation, or…
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