Newell Contracting Co. v. State Highway Commission

The questions presented here for decision are (1) whether or not the appellant, a foreign corporation, was doing business in this state within the meaning of Sections 4140, 4164 and 4165, Code of 1930, at the time the contract herein sued on was executed and its performance undertaken, and had substantially complied with the said statutes in regard to filing a copy of its charter or articles of incorporation in the office of the Secretary of State and designated an agent upon whom service of process could be had, as a condition precedent to its right to do business in this state or to bring…