Tobias v. Wierck

The. defendants, up to March 15, 1892, were owners of the steamboat Havana, engaged in carrying excursion parties to and from the fishing banks. The plaintiff ■ attended to their advertising while the defendants owned the boat, and continued to attend to that business after March 15, 1892, when they transferred the. boat to the Liberty Steamboat Company, a corporation which they formed, and in which they owned all the stock. The advertising sued for was done after the transfer to the cor*764poration, and the defense is that the plaintiff ought to have sued the corporation, and not the defendants.…