Park Brothers & Co. v. Oil City Boiler Works
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 91, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1900, No. 427 ¡-, making absolute a rule to set aside service of process in case of Park Brothers & Company, Limited, for use of the Park Steel Company, v. Oil City Boiler Works. Rule to set aside service of process.
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Appeal, No. 91, Oct. T., 1902, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., April T., 1900, No. 427 ¡-, making absolute a rule to set aside service of process in case of Park Brothers & Company, Limited, for use of the Park Steel Company, v. Oil City Boiler Works. Rule to set aside service of process. From the record it appeared that the defendant company is a manufacturing corporation of Pennsylvania, having its office in Oil City, Venango county, and having no office or place of business in Allegheny county. The suit was brought in assumpsit to recover the price of steel sold to…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb,. Justice Mitchell,
At common law a corporation could only be sued in tbe territorial jurisdiction where it had its legal domicil, and that was where it had its chief place of business. The general corporation act of this state requires the charter to set out “ the place or places where its business is to be transacted,” and this becomes the legal domicil of the corporation. Notwithstanding the learned and ingenious argument of the appellant, it is too firmly settled to admit of question that the common-law rule as to suits against corporations is still the general rule in…
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