Atkins v. W. A. Harriman & Co.

The defendant, a Delaware corporation, was dissolved on January 6, 1931; the plaintiff sued it in the District Court on January 12,1931, which was in season because by section 40 of the Delaware General Corporation Act (Rev. Code 1915, § 1954, as amended by 34 Del. Laws, c. 112, § 9) its corporate life was, extended for three years for purposes of suits by or against it. In the ease of suits pending at dissolution, the section extends this time until the suit ends, and so too if the corporation begins a suit within three years after dissolution. But suits begun against the corporation after…