Blair v. Kingston Manufacturing Co.

Citations

• 64 Pa. Super. 506
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 326

Syllabus

<p>Corporations—Insolvent corporations—Wages claims — Assignment of wage claims—Judgment.</p> <p>An action of assumpsit may be maintained by the assignee of twelve workmen to recover wage claims from tbe stockholders of an insolvent corporation under Sections 14 and 15 of the Act of April 29, 1874, P. L. 73; and this is the case although ten of the claims had been reduced to. judgment against the corporation before they had been assigned to the plaintiff; and in such a case the defendants cannot set up as a defense that the plant had been leased to another corporation, and that the work had been done for the latter corporation, if it appears that work went on as usual after the lease, and that nothing was done to notify the employees, or the public of any change in the management and control of the plant.</p>