Electric Auto-Lite Co. v. P. & D. Mfg. Co.

INCH, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity. Plaintiff, an Ohio corporation; with its principal place of business at Toledo, Ohio, sues the defendants, one being a New York corporation, with its principal place of business in the city of New York, the others are the president, and treasurer, respectively, of the corporation, and are citizens and residents of the state of New York.

Prior to 1930, these individual defendants were copartners. Thereafter they incorporated this copartnership in the name of the corporate defendant. Where the word “defendant” is used, I refer to the corporate…