Aldrich v. E. W. Blatchford & Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Motion to dismiss an action of tort in the Superior Court. The motion was denied; and the defendant appealed to this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss the action on the ground that the defendant is a foreign corporation and that there has been no service upon it or attachment of its property. The service was made upon Mr. Charles A. Jewell as *370the defendant’s attorney. If we may trust the defendant, for the slipshod papers do not give us the dates, this motion to dismiss followed, and the plaintiffs then amended their writ by inserting an allegation that the defendant was a foreign corporation and was plaintiff in a former action in the same court…
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