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· 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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