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Matter of Martin v. Columbia Pictures Corporation

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 3, 1954
123 N.E.2d 572 (N.Y. 1954)

Opinion

Argued October 21, 1954

Decided December 3, 1954

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, NATHAN, J., SCHREIBER, J.

Ferdinand Pecora and David H. Horowitz for appellant.

Meier Steinbrink, Harry Heller, William Gellin and Max M. Bernstein for respondent.



Order affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: LEWIS, Ch. J., DESMOND, DYE and FROESSEL, JJ. CONWAY, FULD and VAN VOORHIS, JJ., dissent in the following memorandum: While we, of course, agree that "the Supreme Court has power, in its sound discretion, upon good cause shown", to direct an inspection of corporate books ( Matter of Steinway, 159 N.Y. 250, 265; see, also, Matter of Durr v. Paragon Trading Corp., 270 N.Y. 464), we do not believe that such cause was shown to exist in this case to justify the order that was made.


Summaries of

Matter of Martin v. Columbia Pictures Corporation

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Dec 3, 1954
123 N.E.2d 572 (N.Y. 1954)
Case details for

Matter of Martin v. Columbia Pictures Corporation

Case Details

Full title:In the Matter of LESTER MARTIN, Respondent, against COLUMBIA PICTURES…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Dec 3, 1954

Citations

123 N.E.2d 572 (N.Y. 1954)
123 N.E.2d 572

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