General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Home Loan & Finance Co.

Appellant was a foreign corporation, and was sued in this case for conversion of two automobiles, alleged to have occurred in Madison county, Alabama. Appellant pleaded in abatement that it was a foreign corporation, and at the time suit was filed it had a known place of business in Alabama, to wit, Birmingham, and that it was not doing business by agent in Madison county at the time the cause of action arose, nor at the time the suit was begun. Plaintiff demurred to this plea.

This court in the case of Case Threshing Mach. Co. v. McGuire, 201 Ala. 203, 77 So. 729, held that under section 232…