Case ID: ohio-law-abs_1/html/0791-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MATTHEWS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No.. 810
    BONTE v. CUNNINGHAM-HOLMES CO.
    Hamilton Common Pleas.
    No. 186226.
    115. CORPORATIONS.
    Dissolved corporations — Actions against may be in corporate name — Service of summons upon— Should be on Trustee if one was appointed.
    Attorneys — Sawyer & Paxson, Dinsmore, Shohl & Sawyer, for Motion; Ross, Jones & Tebbs, contra.
   MATTHEWS, J.

By the express provisions of Sections 11968 and 11969 GC., a dissolved corporation, no matter how the dissolution has been affected, may be sued in its corporate name as though no dissolution had taken place. By the express terms of the latter section the service may be upon either “an assignee, trustee, receiver thereof, or persons having charge of its assets.

Section 8742 GC. provides that unless otherwise in the dissolution proceedings, the directors shall be the trustees to wind up the affairs of the corporation, but that a trustee may he appointed by the stockholders for that purpose.

In view of the affidavit that a trustee was appointed, the court holds that under Section 11969 service should be made upon that trustee. The motion to quash is therefore sustained.