Rendich v. Preferred Mutual Fire Insurance
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Opinion
Order dismissing the third cause of action for insufficiency reversed on the law, with $10 costs and disbursements, and the motion to dismiss said cause of action denied, with $10 costs. The third cause of action alleges facts sufficiently indicating that the individual defendant, acting outside his authority as a corporate officer, sought to extort a private advantage and to obtain a secret profit from the plaintiff; and that upo%the failure of such attempt, he induced the corporation, against its best interests, to breach a corporate contract with the plaintiff. (Navarro v. Fiorita, 271 App. Div. 62, affd. 296 N. Y. 783; 3 Fletcher’s Cyclopedia Corporations [Perm. ed.], § 887.) Lewis, P. J., Carswell, Johnston, Adel and Sneed, JJ., concur. [See post, p. 892.]
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274 A.D. 800, 79 N.Y.S.2d 501, 1948 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 3406, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/rendich-v-preferred-mutual-fire-insurance-nyappdiv-1948.