Lesser Cotton Co. v. Yates
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Sebastian Circuit Court. Styles T. Rowe, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE OOURT. This action was instituted in the court below by appellees on an open account against appellant.
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Appeal from Sebastian Circuit Court. Styles T. Rowe, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE OOURT. This action was instituted in the court below by appellees on an open account against appellant. The complaint, after stating a cause of action against appellant on the account, alleges “that the Lesser Cotton Companjr is a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the state of Missouri, and is doing business at Fort Smith, in Sebastian county, Arkansas, and J. A. Skipwith is its agent, and only agent, at Fort Smith, Ark.” Summons was issued, on the filing of the complaint, against Lesser Cotton Company,…
1Opinion of the Court
-Hughes, J:,
(after stating the -facts). We do not think- that either the case of the Southern Building Loan Association v. Hallum, 59 Ark. 583, or the case of Union Guaranty & Trust Company v. Craddock, id: 593,'is decisive of the question in this case. In' the former of these' two cases, this court held that -there could lie -no' valid service upon a corporation out of the county where the suit was brought^ except by serving an agent designated by the company to receive service under the statute, and that the evidence in that case did-not show that the person-served had been designated as-…
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