Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 41New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1870 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 389 - Each stockholder of any company formed under this act, shall be individually liable to the creditors of such company, to an amount equal to the amount unpaid on the stock held by him, for all the debts and liabilities of such company, until the whole amount of the capital stock so held by him shall have been paid to the company...
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| Title | Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 41 |
| Authors | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero |
| Publisher | Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1870 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Jan 2008 |
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