Otto A. C. Hagen Corp. v. Empire Sheet & Tin Plate Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

The court below was in error in discharging defendant’s rule to show cause why the sheriff’s return of service of the summons in assumpsit should not he set aside and the writ quashed.

Defendant is an Ohio corporation, not registered to do business in Pennsylvania. It maintains no office in this State. While its name is listed in the Philadelphia telephone book and on the directory of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Building, the depositions taken in pursuance of the rule reveal that what is claimed by plaintiff to be defendant’s office in that building is in reality…