Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Bldg. Corp.

I am unable to concur in the opinion of the Court.

1. Respondent, though dissolved, was still a corporation in such a sense and to such a degree as to have capacity to maintain a proceeding in bankruptcy for the liquidation of its assets.

By Bankruptcy Act § 4, 11 U. S. C. § 22 (a), any corporation, with exceptions not now material, may become a voluntary bankrupt.

By Bankruptcy Act § 1 (6), 11 U. S. C. § 1 (6), “ ‘corporations’ shall mean all bodies having any of the powers and privileges of private corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. . . .”

Respondent, when it filed its…