Commonwealth v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

Certain persons were engaged as a copartnership in the sale and distribution of liquid fuels in Luzerne County under the trade name of Hi-Grade Gas & Oil Company. In 1925 they, or some of them, organized a Pennsylvania corporation under the same title; whether or not they transferred the assets of their business to this corporation is not clear. In 1929 Vacuum Investing Corporation entered into a written agreement with them “conducting business as a copartnership or otherwise under the registered name of Hi-Grade Gas & Oil Company at Wilkesbarre,…