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holding that although New York corporate statute provided an exception from the appraisal remedy for unlawful or fraudulent corporate action, "[a]n action for damages alone will not lie, since this would allow a dissenting shareholder, by merely alleging fraudulent or unlawful corporate conduct, to seek therein the identical relief available to him in appraisal proceedings"
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Argued December 14, 1983
Decided January 10, 1984
Appeal from the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, ALFRED S. ROBBINS, J.
Eugene R. Scheiman, Stephen F. Selig, Thomas E. Albright and William A. Brandt, Jr., for appellants. Stephen Lowey, Bernard A. Green and Edwin A. Wolf for respondent.
Order reversed, with costs, defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint granted and question certified answered in the negative for reasons stated in the dissenting opinion by Justice GUY J. MANGANO at the Appellate Division ( 90 A.D.2d 149, 153-162).
Concur: Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JASEN, JONES, WACHTLER, MEYER, SIMONS and KAYE.