Standard Oil Co. v. Superior Court

Pearson,

Judge, delivering the opinion of the Court:

In these prohibition cases, petitioner challenges the jurisdiction of the Superior Court in three actions against it. The actions were begun by attachments of petitioner’s property purportedly made under authority of a foreign corporation attachment statute, Revised Code of Delaware 1935, § 4631. Petitioner contends that the statute, properly construed, does not authorize proceedings under it in these actions; but that if it were construed to be applicable to them, it would violate the commerce clause, art. I, Sec. 8, of the Federal…