Michelin Tire Co. v. Hurlburt

The plaintiff is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of California with its principal office in that state. The defendant Hurlburt is sheriff and tax collector in Multnomah County in this state. The plaintiff at the time mentioned in the complaint was authorized to transact business in the State of Oregon. For several years it had been shipping to Portland from San Francisco by water quantities of its merchandise which it stored in a warehouse in Portland and from thence distributed it to its customers throughout the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. There is…