Armour Packing Co. v. Vinegar Bend Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hon, .Samuel B. Browne. Action by the Armour Packing Company of Louisiana, Limited, against Vinegar Bend Lumber Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. This was an action brought by appellant against the appellee in the circuit’ court of Washington county, «(Hiking to recover the sum of $346.89 due by account. The canse was removed by agreement of parties to the circuit court of Mobile county.
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Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court. Heard before Hon, .Samuel B. Browne. Action by the Armour Packing Company of Louisiana, Limited, against Vinegar Bend Lumber Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. This was an action brought by appellant against the appellee in the circuit’ court of Washington county, «(Hiking to recover the sum of $346.89 due by account. The canse was removed by agreement of parties to the circuit court of Mobile county. The defendant interposed the following pleas: “Comes the defendant, and for further plea in this cause, entitled as above on the docket…
1Opinion of the Court
TYSON, C. J. —
The right of foreign corporations to do business in this state rests upon comity, and not upon any contractual obligations. It Avas, therefore1, entirely competent for. the constitutional convention, in ordaining the present Constitution, to impose upon foreign corporations doing business in this state at the date of its adoption the additional requirement of “filing with the secretary of state a certified copy of its articles of incorporation.”- — Section 232, Const. 1901, This proposition, however, does not seem to be controverted. But the contention is that this requirement…
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