Entered according to act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, BY WILLIAM GOULD & SON, tika Maga5,1551 THE ARGUS COMPANY, ALBANY, N. Y. PAOL. PAGE. A. Fielding agt. Lucas et al. ...... 134 Abrahams agt. Bensen..... 208 First National Bank agt. Fourth Achelis agt. Kalman. 491 National Bank.., 436 Adams agt. Ward.... 288 Firth et al agt. Roe..... 432 Association for the Relief of Fleishhauer agt. Doellner.. 438 Aged Indigent Females agt. Frankel agt. Elias...... 74 Eagleson.. 9 Freeman agt. Smith et al....... 311 Auerbach agt. New York Central and Hudson River Rail G. road Company..... 382 124 B. Grocers' Bank agt. Murphy.... 426 Baker agt. Van Epps.......... 79 Bliven agt. Peru Steel and Iron H. Company... 280 Blunt agt. The Mayor..... 482 Havemeyer agt. Fuller........ 316 Hebron Society agt. Schoen... 185 Burnham agt. Brennan. 310 J. 18 Jackson agt. Keon........... 103 Checkley agt. Providence and Johnston Harvester Company Stonington Steamship Com- agt. Meinhardt..... 168 pany..... 510 Jones agt. Platt.... 73 Clark agt. Bone.. 98 Jones agt. Platt.. 277 Clarkson et al agt. Manson.... 45 Clegg agt. American Newspaper K. Union...... 498 Kelly agt. Sheehy et al........ 439 Conley agt. Petrie et al. 299 Kennedy agt. Kennedy.... 151 Crook agt. Findley..... 875 Kerrison agt. Kerrison... 51 D. L. 334 Little et al agt. Coyle et al ..... 76 Livermore agt. Berdell........ 308 E. Ellison agt. Bernstein ......... 145 M. Equitable Life Assurance So Mahon agt. Smith... 385 ciety agt. Schermerhorn..... 477 Marston agt. Herbert. 490 Everson agt. Powers.... 166 Masten agt. Olcott. 105 Masten agt. Webb. 302 E Matter of Benson... 314 Fallon agt. Durant... 178 Matter of Ketchum's ApplicaFeerick agt. Conner... 506 tion...... 154
iv PAGE. 258 The People ex rel. Bush agt. Matter of One Hundred and Thornton,.. Thirty-eighth Street......... 290 The People ex rel. Evans agt. Matter of Opening Sixty-seventh Board of Commissioners of 194 The People ex rel. Gilmour agt. McCabe agt. Fogg et al.... .... 498 Callahan McCoon agt. White..... 149 The People agt. Globe Mutual McCormack agt. McCormack.. 196 Life Insurance Co ...... 57 Miller et al agt. Kent...... 388 The People agt. Globe Mutual Morgan agt. Van Kohnstamm.. 161 The People ex rel. Hambrecht Musgrave agt. Sherwood...... 339 The People ex rel. Hassell agt. The People ex rel. Higgins agt. Pattison ex rel. agt. O'Connor.. 144 McAdam.... 139 206 The People ex rel. Higgins agt. McAdam... 444 Pope agt. Terre Haute Car and The People agt. Long Island Railroad Company.......... 395 Prentiss agt. Livingston et al.., 380 The People ex rel. Murphy agt. 511 377 67 The People agt. Briggs.. 17 Ritch agt. Smith et al ..... 13 ing Company agt. Hart...... 190 Ryle agt. Falk..... 516 Van Schaick agt. Sigel ....... 122 Sollinger agt. Earle.. 116 Wiley agt. Arnoux............ 137 T. Z. Tinkey agt. Langdon.......... 180 W. PRACTICE REPORTS. SUPREME COURT. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK agt. WILLIAM FONTAINE BRUFF, THE BROOKLYN ELEVATED RAILWAY COMPANY and others. Action against directors, &c., of a corporation for misconduct — By whom action to be brought — When attorney-general must bring action - Power of the court to appoint a receiver - Practice — Code of Civil Procedure, sections 1781, 1782, 1808, 1810. The attorney-general, in behalf of the people of the state, may maintain an action “ against one or more trustees, directors, managers or other officers of a corporation to procure a judgment * * compelling the defendants to account for their official conduct in the management and disposition of the funds and property committed to their charge,” and "compelling them to pay the corporation which they represent, or its creditors, any money, and the value of any property which they have acquired to themselves, or transferred to others, or lost or wasted, by a violation of their duties," and "suspending a defendant from exercising his office when it appears that he has abused his trust" (Code of Civil Procedure, sections 1781, 1782). By section 1808 of the Code of Civil Procedure the attorney-general “must bring an action” for the purposes just enumerated, “if, in his opinion, the public interests require that an action should be brought;” and by section 1810, in an action brought for the objects specified, by the attorney-general, the court has power to appoint a receiver of the prop erty of the corporation. When the president of a railroad company makes a contract with himself for the construction of a railway; when he obtains all the securities, stock and bonds under the pretense of paying the nominal contractor; when as chief engineer he makes to himself as contractor certificates of work done, and then as president pays himself many hundred thousand dollars in advance of what the nominal contractor was entitled to receive under the contract for construction, ample cause is shown for the appointment of a receiver, and the command of the statute to the attorney-general that he “must bring an action," becomes imperative. |
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