C. B. Rogers & Co. v. Simmons
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by a foreign corporation against a constable of the city of Boston, to recover part of the proceeds of a sale on an execution in favor of the plaintiff, as money had and received to the plaintiff’s use. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Mason, C. J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, and the defendant alleged exceptions, which, so far as material, appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The first exception was to the refusal of the court to rule that the action could not be maintained because the plaintiff corporation failed to comply with the provisions of the St. of 1884, c. 330, which require every foreign corporation doing business in this Commonwealth to appoint the commis*260sioner of corporations its attorney on whom service of process can be made, and also to file a copy of its charter, or certificate of incorporation, with a statement of the amount of its capital stock and the amount paid in thereon to its treasurer, before beginning to do business here. The contention…
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