Three Rivers Glass Co. formally dissolves

Three Rivers Glass Co. formally dissolves

In January 1937, the Three Rivers Glass Company (the Texas corporation) is formally dissolved through insolvency proceedings — nine years before former shareholders Charles R. Tips, W. L. Moody III, and Harry R. Rogers will file the 1946 $1,350,000 anti-trust suit against Hartford-Empire, Ball Bros., and Owens-Illinois alleging the dissolution was caused by the patent-pool’s unlawful acts.

The dissolution date is documented retrospectively in the 1946 anti-trust petition itself, which states the “Three River[s] Glass Co. continued in business until its dissolution in January, 1937, as a result of insolvency proceedings resulting from the unlawful acts of the defendant[s]” (1946-01-03 The News “$1,350,000 Suit Is Filed Here” — page 2). This resolves the prior 1937-vs-1938 ambiguity in favor of January 1937 for the formal corporate dissolution.

Distinct from the corporate dissolution: the physical plant continued operating under Ball ownership through at least November 1937 (per H&H SA Light features documenting Crystalvac as still in “wide distribution”) and possibly into 1938 (per collector-narrative framing). The Texas corporation ending in Jan 1937 is what enabled the 1946 plaintiffs to characterize themselves as “former shareholders” of a “dissolved Texas corporation.”

See also

• Three Rivers Glass Company
• 1936 Ball acquires Three Rivers Glass Co. — immediate prior event (Dec 1936 reorganization out of receivership)
• 1946 Three Rivers shareholders’ anti-trust suit — the retrospective legal action that documents this dissolution date