W. VIEW HILLS v. LIZAU REALTY CORP.


6 N.Y.2d 344 (1959)

West View Hills, Inc., Respondent, v. Lizau Realty Corp. et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Brown for appellants.

Benjamin Paul Goldman for respondent.

Judges DESMOND, FULD, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE concur with Judge DYE; Judge FROESSEL dissents in an opinion in which Chief Judge CONWAY concurs.


DYE, J.

In this appeal, by permission, the question posed is whether the president of the plaintiff corporation, at the time the action was originally instituted, had the power, as president, to institute the action on behalf of the corporation. In answering such question in favor of the plaintiff both Special Term and the court below correctly applied the accepted principle that when there has been no direct...

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