· 3/20/1944
Wellworth Restaurant, Inc. v. O'Connell
Citations
- 267 A.D. 914
- 47 N.Y.S.2d 595
- 1944 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5486
How courts have described this case
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- stating that under New York law, shareholder has no individual claim for wrong to corporation
- holding individual standing not available where, inter alia, “there is no claim that plaintiff sustained a loss disproportionate to that sustained by” the corporation
- observing that “[f]or a wrong against a corporation a shareholder has no individual cause of action ... ”
- holding individual standing not available where, inter alia, “there is no claim that plaintiff sustained a loss disproportionate to that sustained by” the corporation
- stating that under New York law, shareholder has no individual claim for wrong to corporation
- finding, where an “individual claim is ‘confused’ or ‘embedded’ within [a] derivative claim, then it must be dismissed”
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