Watson-Higgins Milling Co. v. St. Paul Milling Co.

This is appeal in the nature of certiorari to review an order denying defendant’s motion to set aside service of a writ of summons for want of jurisdiction of the person of defendant, a Minnesota corporation.

It is said in Philadelphia, & Reading R. Co. v. McKibbin, 243 U. S. 264 (37 Sup. Ct. 280):

“A foreign corporation is amenable to process to enforce a personal liability, in the absence of consent, only if it is doing business within the State in such manner and to such extent as to warrant the inference that it is present there. And even if it is doing business within the State the process…