Legal Opinion
American Transp. Co. v. Swift & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 20, 1928No. 307PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtL. Hand, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above).
That the cause of action in favor of the libelant survived its dissolution is too plain for debate. Sections 41 and 43 of the Delaware Corporation Law so provided, and the repeal of sections 41 and 42, probably because they had always been redundant, changed nothing. We have, therefore, no occasion to consider the effect at common law of corporate dissolution, whether at law or in equity. The respondent relies on Commercial Bank v. Lockwood’s Administrator (Del.) 2 Har. 8, but that case has nothing to do with the present situation. When the bank, the…
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