Cooper v. Utah Light & Railway Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Third District; Hon. G. W. Morse, Judge. Action to subject property to the payment of judgment. Thom a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant, the Utah Light ■& Hallway, appealed. APPELLANT'S AUTHORITIES.
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Appeal from District Court, Third District; Hon. G. W. Morse, Judge. Action to subject property to the payment of judgment. Thom a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant, the Utah Light ■& Hallway, appealed. APPELLANT'S AUTHORITIES. The rule with respect to the liability of a purchasing corporation for the debts of a vendor corporation is stated by Clark & Marshall on Corporations, sec. 342, vol. 2, page 985, as follows: “As a general rule, a separate and distinct corporation which has succeeded by a valid purchase and transfer to the property and franchises of another corporation, is not…
1Opinion of the CourtStraup, C. J.
This is an equitable action, brought by plaintiff to subject certain property conveyed and transferred by the Utah Light & Power Company, a corporation, to the Utah Light & Railway Company, a corporation, to the satisfaction of a *577judgment obtained by tbe plaintiff against tbe first-named company. Tbe case was submitted to tbe court below principally upon an agreed statement pf facts. Tbe statement, and findings of tbe'Court, so far as material, show: Both corporations are domestic corporations. Tbe Utah Light & Power Company was organized in 1899, and from that time until January 2, '1904,…
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