H. H. Hornfeck & Sons, Inc. v. Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff company is a corporation formed on May 8, 1916, in succession to a firm of two partners which had done the same business. The value of the firm’s assets was $206,771.49' against which it had debts of $65,474.92. From their cash the *39partners took out $10,000, which they used to subscribo for corporate shares, this being tho whole stock issued at the time. The rest of the assets they conveyed to the company, which assumed the existing debts, and, in consideration of the transfer, set up credits on its books to the amount of $131,296.57, in their favor,…
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