Healing v. Isbrandtsen Co.

BONDY, District Judge.

This is a motion by defendant Reading Company, a railroad corporation organized under the laws of Pennsylvania, to vacate the service of summons on the defendant on the ground that defendant is not doing business within the jurisdiction of this court.

The defendant alleges that for over thirty years it has maintained in New York City an office in which it employs several persons whose salaries are remitted from Pennsylvania, who solicit business for defendant’s lines, give information, and generally “maintain contact” with the shippers in New York; tickets good over…