Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York, 1934

Steinberg-Hyman Co. v. Fanjac Realty Corp.

Steinberg-Hyman Co. v. Fanjac Realty Corp.
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided July 12, 1934
152 Misc. 268; 273 N.Y.S. 464; 1934 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 1497

Counsel

Ralph E. Freidus, for the appellant., Shapanka & Haselkorn [Isidor Haselkorn of counsel], for the respondent.

Steinberg-Hyman Co. v. Fanjac Realty Corp.

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

Payments made by an agent of a corporation at its direction, even though ultra vires, may not be recovered back by the corporation where no fraud is claimed, where the rights of creditors are not involved and where the corporation is not insolvent.

Judgment reversed, with thirty dollars costs, and judgment directed in favor of the plaintiff as demanded in the complaint, and counterclaim dismissed on the merits.

All concur; present, Callahan, Frankenthaler and Shientag, JJ.

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