Old '76 (Finchtown) Distillery Co. v. Wiechelman

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

At the dates herein involved John D. Menke was president of a whisky manufacturing corporation known as “The Old ’76 Distillery Company,” located at Finch-town, Ky. When first incorporated, the company was known as “The Finchtown Distillery Company,” and since the dates here involved it again by amendment changed its corporate name to the one it originally bore. While operating as the Old ’76 Distillery Company, and while Menke was its nominal president, he in October, 1928, and in February, 1929, procured some of the old blank warehouse distillery…