Sharpless Specialty Co. v. Wilson & Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This action was begun by foreign attachment, the writ issued against Wilson & Company. Funds belonging to *541Wilson & Co., Inc., a corporation of the State of New York, were attached. On the trial, it developed that there was no such corporate entity as “Wilson & Company” but that this was the trade name under which a combination of corporations, including Wilson & Co., Inc., the parent corporation chartered under the laws of New York, carried on business; letterheads and the sign on the office door at the main office in Chicago, which was the registered office of…