Feldmeier v. Webster
| Court | United States State Supreme Court (New York) |
| Writing for the Court | SULLIVAN |
| Citation | 208 Misc. 996,145 N.Y.S.2d 365 |
| Decision Date | 24 October 1955 |
| Parties | Robert H. FELDMEIER as a Stockholder of Sanitary Processing Equipment Corporation, Plaintiff, v. Eric WEBSTER, Sanitary Processing Equipment Corporation and Eastern Dairy Equipment Co., Inc., Defendants. |
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Equipment Corporation, Plaintiff,
v.
Eric WEBSTER, Sanitary Processing Equipment Corporation and
Eastern Dairy Equipment Co., Inc., Defendants.
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Gray, Norem, Van Lengen & Van Lengen, George Van Lengen, Syracuse, for plaintiff.Harry L. Marcus, Brooklyn, Herbert L. Maltinsky, Brooklyn, of counsel, for defendants.
SULLIVAN, Justice.
This is a motion by the defendants for an order to change the venue of this action from Onondaga County to Queens County.
The suit is a stockholder's derivative action and it is brought pursuant to Section 60 of the General Corporation Law.
It is the contention of the defendants that the real plaintiff is Sanitary Processing Equipment Corporation and not Robert Feldmeier, a stockholder, and therefore, the action belongs to the corporation and not to the stockholders individually or collectively. Carruthers v. Jack Waite Mining Co., 306 N.Y. 136, at page 140, 116 N.E.2d 286, at page 288.
Hence, it is argued that the residence of the corporation, which is Queens County, determines the venue of the action.
However, the cited case holds that the stockholder is a plaintiff, altho only a nominal one, and that an existing corporation is an indispensable party to the action. In the instant case, the [208 Misc. 997] corporation is not prosecuting the action. It is a defendant. The stockholder is prosecuting it. He is the plaintiff. Civil Practice Act, § 191.
As such, he is, of course, a party.
'Parties, in the larger legal sense, are all persons having a right to control the proceedings to make defense, to adduce and cross-examine witnesses, and to appeal from the decision, if an appeal lies.' Knickerbocker Trust Co. v. Tarrytown, W. P. & M. R. Co., 139 App.Div. 305, at page 308, 123 N.Y.S. 954, at page 956.
The stockholder in a derivative action comes within this category.
Civil Practice Act, § 182, provides, in part:
'An action in the supreme court * * * must be tried in the county in which one of the parties resided at the commencement thereof.'
The stockholder resides in Onondaga County. Since he is a party, nominal or otherwise, the venue of this action is laid in the proper county.
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