Henry Billings Brown

“ Admitting to the fullest extent the proposition that the mere discontinuance of business by a corporation, the sale of its assets, the failure to re-elect officers, and the nonuser of its franchise, do not, ipso facto, work a dissolution of the corporation, it seems to me that this is aside from the merits of the case. ”

“ But the law does not compel that which is impossible, and, if the facts alleged in the bill show that no judgment can be obtained against the corporations, and that it is useless to pursue them, the bare existence of such corporations, ought not to defeat the recovery of a just claim. ”