United Iron Works Co. v. Watterson Hotel Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Reversing.

The appellant, a Missouri corporation, sued the api pellee hotel company, a Tennessee corporation, and an-i other to recover the balance due upon a contract for the¡ purchase and installation of refrigeration and ice man-i ufacturing machinery, and to enforce a lien upon the same. By answer the defendant hotel company, among! other defenses, alleged that the plaintiff was a foreign: corporation doing business in this state'; that it had not complied with section 571 of the Kentucky Statutes, and that its contract was, therefore, illegal and…