Noland Company v. Laxton Construction Company

The decisive question in this case is this: Was plaintiff’s principal office and place of business located in Wake County on 19 April 1955, the day this action was instituted? The court below answered in the affirmative. We are constrained to hold to the contrary.

Our law of corporations is in large measure contained in ch. 55 of the General Statutes. Provisions therein referring to suits in behalf of or against domestic corporations and foreign corporations which have submitted to. domestication must be read in pari materia, subject to the limitation that domestication does not deprive the…