Case Name: John W. Ford, Suing in His Own Behalf and in Behalf of All Other Creditors of the Rochester Mexican Plantation Company, Respondent, v. Benjamin E. Chase and Others, Appellants, Impleaded with Augustus S. Pendry, Appellant, Respondent, and Frank A. Underwood and Others, Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1910-03
Citations: 137 A.D. 927
Docket Number: 
Parties: John W. Ford, Suing in His Own Behalf and in Behalf of All Other Creditors of the Rochester Mexican Plantation Company, Respondent, v. Benjamin E. Chase and Others, Appellants, Impleaded with Augustus S. Pendry, Appellant, Respondent, and Frank A. Underwood and Others, Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 137
Pages: 927–927

Head Matter:
John W. Ford, Suing in His Own Behalf and in Behalf of All Other Creditors of the Rochester Mexican Plantation Company, Respondent, v. Benjamin E. Chase and Others, Appellants, Impleaded with Augustus S. Pendry, Appellant, Respondent, and Frank A. Underwood and Others, Defendants.

Opinion:
Interlocutory judgment affirmed, with costs. All concurred, except McLennan, P. J., who dissented upon the ground that the indebtedness in question was contracted prior to the time when the defendants became stockholders of the corporation, withiq the meaning of section 56 of the Stock Corporation Law.
See Gen. Laws, chap. 36 (Laws of 1892, chap. 688), § 54, as amd. by Laws of 1901, chap. 354; revised into Consol. Laws, chap. 59 (Laws of 1909, chap. 61), §56.—[Rep.