New York Court of Appeals January 11, 1898 (Fernschild v. D. G. Yuengling Brewing Co.)

O’Brien, J.

The plaintiff owned two one-thousand dollar bonds issued by a corporation to which the defendant succeeded by a process .of reorganization. The name of the corporation that had issued the bonds differed from that of the defendant only in the use of the word “ junior ” after the name of the person from whom both corporations derived their name.