Legal Opinion
Employers' Liability Assur. Corp. v. Astoria Mahogany Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 7, 1924No. 350Published
1Opinion of the CourtMayer, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). So far as affects the appellants, Huddleston Company is an existing corporation, just as if no merger had taken place. This proposition we think is disposed of by two decisions of the New York Court of Appeals. Irvine v. New York Edison Co., 207 N. Y. 425, 101 N. E. 358, Ann. Cas. 1914C, 441; Syracuse Lighting Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co., 226 N. Y. 25, 122 N. E. 723. Since these decisions of the New York Court of Appeals, the New York Legislature has amended the whole of chapter 59 of the Consolidated Laws; but, legislating as it did with knowledge of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- In Re Proving the Will of BergdorfNew York Court of Appeals · 1912
- Syracuse Lighting Co. v. . Maryland Casualty Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1919
- Irvine v. . New York Edison Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1913
- Smith v. Pacific Improvement Co.New York Supreme Court · 1918
- People ex rel. Huff v. Warden & Keeper of the PrisonNew York Supreme Court · 1922