Gunter v. Texas Land and Mortgage Co.

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

This is an agreed case, and so much as is necessary to be stated is as follows:

“Appellee brought this suit in the District Court of Ellis County, and its petition alleged the following facts: That plaintiff is a foreign corporation, incorporated under the laws of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with its principal office in the city of London, England, but doing business in the State of Texas, and having an office in Dallas County, in said State; that the business authorized by plaintiff’s articles of incorporation, and the business done by plaintiff', is the…