Grace v. Procter & Gamble Co.

The fundamental issue in this case is whether the Procter & Gamble Distributing Company was “doing business within this state” and therefore “liable in the same manner as domestic corporations” in trustee process. R. L., c. 280, s. 8. “The question is one of federal law.” See Campbell v. Corporation, 86 N. H. 310, 311, where this court regarded the federal decisions as controlling rather than convincing. Since the Campbell case, however, the legal fiction of corporate “presence” has been discarded as the test for determining jurisdiction over foreign corporations. While there are no…