Eureka Lake & Yuba Canal Co. v. Superior Court
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OR THE STATE OE CALIFORNIA. This was a motion to dismiss the writ of error for want of jurisdiction, with which was united a motion to affirm.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OR THE STATE OE CALIFORNIA. This was a motion to dismiss the writ of error for want of jurisdiction, with which was united a motion to affirm. The record in the case showed that the Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal Company, (Consolidated,) was a New York corporation doing business in California, and that in or about the month of March, 1880, the company filed .in the office of the Secretary of State of California an instrument designating and appointing “David Cahn, of 205 Sansome Street, in the city of San Francisco, ... as the person upon whom process issued by…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief-Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court. After stating the facts in the language reported above, he continued :
It does not appear affirmatively on the face of the record that the orders of. the Superior Court were objected to in the Supreme Court on the ground that, in the absence of personal service of the order to show cause on some officer, or authorized agent of the corporation, the judgment in the contempt proceeding was without due process of law, and therefore contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution'of the United States; yet that point is made here,…
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