Wamsley v. H. L. Horton Co.

Pending an action in this court against the H. L. Horton Company (Limited), ah English corporation, the company was dissolved; whereupon motion is made to continue the action against three certain individuals, “ as trustees of the defendant for its creditors and stockholders.” Were the company merely in process of liquidation, Societe, etc., v. Milliken, 135 U. S. 304, 309, is authority for the proposition that, nevertheless) the action might be prosecuted to judgment against the corporation. But the tmcontradicted fact is that the company no longer exists as a legal entity, and the necessary…