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Deposit Contr. Corp. v. N.Y. Brooklyn Casket Co.

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department
Jun 24, 1943
180 Misc. 530 (N.Y. App. Term 1943)

Opinion

June 24, 1943.

Appeal from the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, WECHT, J.

Arthur H. Haaren for appellant.

Manuel S. Gottdenker for respondent.


MEMORANDUM


Judgment unanimously modified upon the law, by reducing the amount of the recovery against the defendant to fifty dollars, together with appropriate costs in the court below, and as so modified affirmed, with twenty-five dollars costs of this appeal to defendant-appellant.

Within the meaning of section 10 of the Stock Corporation Law, the plaintiff was not entitled to the recovery of a separate penalty in the one action for each and every refusal of the defendant to record the stock transfer. (See Griffin v. Interurban St. Ry. Co., 179 N.Y. 438; Cox v. Paul, 175 N.Y. 328.) No opinion.

MacCRATE, SMITH and STEINBRINK, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Deposit Contr. Corp. v. N.Y. Brooklyn Casket Co.

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department
Jun 24, 1943
180 Misc. 530 (N.Y. App. Term 1943)
Case details for

Deposit Contr. Corp. v. N.Y. Brooklyn Casket Co.

Case Details

Full title:DEPOSIT CONTRACTING CORPORATION, Respondent, v. NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Term, Second Department

Date published: Jun 24, 1943

Citations

180 Misc. 530 (N.Y. App. Term 1943)
43 N.Y.S.2d 218