Weil v. Northwestern Pennsylvania Railway Co.

Citations

• 257 Pa. 88
• 101 A. 312
• 1917 Pa. LEXIS 686

Syllabus

<p>Contracts — Attorneys’ compensation — Bondholders’ committee— Reorganized company — Liability of new corporation.</p> <p>Where in an action against a reorganized corporation brought by ■a firm of attorneys for compensation for services rendered a bondholders’ committee, which had effected the reorganization, it appeared that the contract upon which the action was brought was not the defendant’s contract but the contract of the bondholders’ committee, and where the question whether the contract had subsequently been adopted by the defendant was submitted to the jury and the jury found a verdict for defendant, the refusal to enter judgment for plaintiff n. o. v. was proper.</p>