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Corporations-Where Name Of New Corporation Is The Existing Trade Name Of Another, Robert M. Barton S. Ed. Dec 1944

Corporations-Where Name Of New Corporation Is The Existing Trade Name Of Another, Robert M. Barton S. Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In 1928 plaintiff changed its official corporate name from the "City Fuel Company" to the "Staples Coal Company," but continued to utilize the old corporate name as a trade name in advertising and the retail sale of fuel oil. It made little, if any, use of the new title, since the general public was accustomed to dealing with it under the name it had used for seventeen years. Defendant was incorporated in 1943 as the "City Fuel Company" and began to engage in a similar business in the same general trade area of greater Boston. Plaintiff, fearing deception of the …

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Reasonable Corporate Salaries, Bruce H. Johnson Oct 1944

Reasonable Corporate Salaries, Bruce H. Johnson

Indiana Law Journal

Annual Meeting of the Indiana State Bar Association, Roundtables & Section Meetings, 1944

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Service On Foreign Corporations After Withdrawal From The State, Alvin E. Evans Feb 1944

Service On Foreign Corporations After Withdrawal From The State, Alvin E. Evans

Michigan Law Review

It might reasonably be expected in this corporate age that the question of how service of process should be made upon foreign corporations would have been solved, especially in situations where the cause of action arose within the state and grew out of business done there. Such is not the case, at least respecting suits brought after the withdrawal of the corporation from the state on causes of action arising during the period that it did business there. That there is a conflict in the decisions seems to be due either to a difference inter se of the statutes under …

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Recent Changes Affecting Minority Stockholders' Suits Jan 1944