Good Hope Co. v. Railway Barb Fencing Co.

The question raised by this motion is whether jurisdiction is acquired in an action brought against a foreign corporation, by the service of process on its president while in this district, although the corporation has no office or place of business within this state, and is not engaged in business here, except that it has made occasionally a purchase of goods by sending an agent here for that purpose. Its president came here to adjust a controversy between *636it ancb the plaintiff growing out of such a purchase, and was then served with the summons in this action. - Stated in another form the…