Guilford Granite Co. v. Harrison Granite Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in an action on a bond against the principal and surety.
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Hearing on appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in an action on a bond against the principal and surety. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows : This action was begun in the supreme court of the District on June 6, 1900, by the Harrison Granite Company, a corporation created by the State of Michigan, against the Guilford Granite Company, as principal, and the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, as surety, upon a bond, in the sum of $4,000, given to secure the performance of a contract. Both defendants are corporations…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
1. The demurrer raising the question of jurisdiction was rightly overruled. Howard v. Chesapeake & O. R. Co. 11 App. D. C. 300, 333. In that case, the plaintiff, who was a citizen of the State of Indiana, sued the defendant, a foreign corporation, *20to recover damages for an injury sustained on its railway in the State of Kentucky. Citation was served upon the agent of the defendant, which maintained an office for the purpose of carrying on business in the District of Columbia, under the provisions of § 790, D. C. Rev. Stat., which reads: “In ictions against
foreign corporations doing business…
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- Phillips & Colby Construction Co. v. SeymourSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- Cross v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Co. v. RussellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
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