Fernschild v. D. G. Yuengling Brewing Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department (in a case transferred from the first department), entered March 16, 1897, reversing a judgment of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial district in favor of plaintiff and affirming a judgment in favor of defendant, rendered by tlie General Term of the City Court of the city of New York.
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Appeal, by permission, from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department (in a case transferred from the first department), entered March 16, 1897, reversing a judgment of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial district in favor of plaintiff and affirming a judgment in favor of defendant, rendered by tlie General Term of the City Court of the city of New York. This action was brought against the D. G. Yuengling Brewing Company to recover on bonds executed by the D. G. Yuengling, Jr., Brewing Company, the predecessor of the…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The plaintiff owned two one-thousand dollar bonds issued by a corporation to which the defendant succeeded by a process .of reorganization. The name of the corporation that had issued the bonds differed from that of the defendant only in the use of the word “ junior ” after the name of the person from whom both corporations derived their name. The old company was insolvent and a committee of the bondholders were engaged in reorganizing it under the statute. The plaintiff’s bonds are part of an issue of $1,258,000 by the old company secured by a second mortgage upon the plant of a brewery. The…
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