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Show ASSUMED NAME DECLARED LEGAL New York. August 2G. A New York court has ruled that an assumed name is legal and may be recognized in thu courts. The decision declare ' that a ! person may assume ciuy name other than his or her own and that such persou may sue under that assumed uaroe legally; also that such assumed name Is to all intentions aud purposes pur-poses as legal as thouch tho person had been born to It " This decision was made in the course or Buit for breach of promise brought by Miss Fay Darling, against a wealthy - New Yorker, The latter in his answer set up as a part of his defense that the true name of the plaintiff was not Fay Darling, but Fanny Strelmer and that her name had never been changed by any order of the courts allowing or permitting the plaintiff lo assume or uko the name of Fay Darllnc. i |