Ottoman Cahvey Co. v. Dane

Citations

• 95 Ill. 203
• 1880 Ill. LEXIS 171

Syllabus

<p>Corporations—partnerships—doing business under the name of another corporation. A company claiming to have been incorporated under the laws of another State, commenced doing business in this State, under its assumed corporate name. Subsequently another company became incorporated by the same corporate name as the former, under the laws of this State, and commenced business in the same city in which the former company was already established. The company organized under the laws of this State sought to restrain the persons composing the other company from continuing to do business under the corporate name, alleging that the defendants’ pretended corporation no longer existed,—but it was held that was not sufficient ground for the relief sought. If the defendants were no longer incorporated, or if their original organization as a corporation was illegal, they still had a right to prosecute their business as partners, and under any name they might adopt.</p>