248 A.D. 150 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1936
The appellant, The Thew Shovel Company, a foreign corporation, was the only defendant served with process.
Plaintiff’s claim set forth in its affidavits in opposition to the motion to vacate the warrant of attachment is that defendant Robert G. Miller, a vice-president of plaintiff, organized the Harlem Valley Construction Co., Inc., and by fraud permitted a default judgment to be obtained by a creditor against plaintiff; that thereafter the Harlem Valley Construction Co., Inc., purchased the cranes at the sheriff’s sale and that Miller thereafter shipped the cranes out of the State to appellant for the purpose of defrauding plaintiff.
If it is assumed that these facts are all established, there is not the slightest proof that appellant had any knowledge of the fraud, or that it played any part in the alleged conspiracy to defraud plaintiff. That the cranes were sent to The Thew Shovel Company for reconditioning and repair by the corporation which has now title to the property, appears unquestioned. Upon the original claim of plaintiff as set forth in the complaint and even upon its later charge, there appears to be no basis in law for granting the warrant of attachment against The Thew Shovel Company.
Martin, P. J., McAvoy, Townley and Untermyer, JJ., concur.
Order unanimously reversed, with twenty dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion granted.