Cooper Manufacturing Co. v. Ferguson
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. Section ten of article fifteen of the Constitution of the State of Colorado, adopted in 1876, and still in force, provides as follow's : “No foreign corporation shall do any business in this State without ■ having one or more known places of business and an authorized agent or pgents in the same upon whom process may be served.”
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. Section ten of article fifteen of the Constitution of the State of Colorado, adopted in 1876, and still in force, provides as follow's : “No foreign corporation shall do any business in this State without ■ having one or more known places of business and an authorized agent or pgents in the same upon whom process may be served.” To carry into effect this clause of the Constitution, the legislature of Colorado, in the year 1877, in an act entitled “An Act to provide for the formation of corporations,” enacted as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
He recited the facts as above stated, and continued:
The right of the people of a State to prescribe generally by its constitution and laws the terms upon which a foreign corporation shall be allowed to carry on its business in the State, has been settled by this court. Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 519; Paul v. Virginia, 8 Wall. 168; Ducat v. Chicago, 10 Wall. 410. The plaintiff in error does not deny this right, but insists that, upon a proper construction of § 10 of article 15 of the Constitution of Colorado-, and'of § 23 of the act of 1877, its contract with the defendants was valid,…
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