Frank Boufford Co. v. Lomenzo

Appeal from a judgment of Supreme Court, entered in Albany County on August 17, 1971, in a proceeding under CPLR article 78 by which Special Term directed appellant to file respondent’s certificate amending its corporate name. Respondent sought to amend its corporate name to Boufford Company, Inc. The appellant rejected the application because the name proposed was so similar to the existing name of another corporation, Bouffard Contracting Corporation, “as to tend to confuse or deceive”. (Business Corporations Law, § 301.) The only differences between the proposed name and the name on file…