Wallace v. . Walsh
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, made April 30,1889, which reversed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the com-t on trial without a jury. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The plaintiffs’ cause of action was fully and duly proved. (Squires v. Brown, 22 How.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, made April 30,1889, which reversed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the com-t on trial without a jury. The nature of the action and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The plaintiffs’ cause of action was fully and duly proved. (Squires v. Brown, 22 How. Pr. 35; Laws of 1860, chap. 269; Laws of 1867, chap. 248; Laws of 1878, chap. 316 ; S. & J. on Mfg. Corp. § 25; Angell & Ames on Corp. § 345; Curtin v. F. M. Society, 3 Daly, 20.) The certificate of…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruger, Ch. J.
This action was brought against the defendants, as trustees of the “ Syracuse Stove Company,” to recover an indebtedness owing to the plaintiff by that corporation, upon the ground that such trustees had become personally liable therefor, by reason of their neglect to make and publish the annual reports, for the years 1887 and 1888, of the financial condition of the corporation as required by statute. (§ 12, chap. 40, Laws of 1848.) The company was incorporated under the law of 1848 as a manufacturing corporation, and the language of the statute imposing the duty of making…
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