Wood Hydraulic Hose Mining Co. v. King
Supreme Court of Georgia
Corporation. Evidence. New Trial. Before Judge Parrott. Lumpkin Superior Court. September Term, 1871. King brought assumpsit against said company, a corporate body of this State, for his services as its treasurer, and for money paid out by him for the company to carry on its mining operations in Georgia. The defenses were non assumpsit and that King had failed to perform his duty.
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Corporation. Evidence. New Trial. Before Judge Parrott. Lumpkin Superior Court. September Term, 1871. King brought assumpsit against said company, a corporate body of this State, for his services as its treasurer, and for money paid out by him for the company to carry on its mining operations in Georgia. The defenses were non assumpsit and that King had failed to perform his duty. King was examined by interrogatories and swore to the correctness of his account, and, to fortify his testimony as to money paid out by him for the company, he produced receipts signed by the parties to whom he paid…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
1. We recognize fully the doctrine that a corporation, as such, does not exist out of the jurisdiction which charters it: 1 Blatch. R., 628; 13 Pet. R., 588; 1 Black. U. S. R., 286. But, while this is true, nothing is now better settled than that a corporation may, by its agents, make contracts, sue and be sued, out of that jurisdiction which gave it birth. This State is full of agents, doing business for corporations of other States, and even for corporations of foreign States; and the authorities are now uniform that an agent of a corporation may exercise its powers out of the…
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