Burke v. Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Company, from an order of the. Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 28th day of March, 1916, denying defendant’s motion to set aside the service of the summons herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Page, J.:
The defendant, a foreign corporation, in 1893 applied for and received from the Secretary of State a certificate of authority to do business in this State. By virtue of that certificate it was exempted from the statute whereby a foreign stock corporation, other than a moneyed corporation, was prohibited from maintaining an action in this State upon any contract made by it within the State. (Gen. Corp. Law [Gen. Laws, chap. 35; Laws of 1892, chap. 687], § 15, as amd. by Laws of 1901, chaps. 96, 538, and Laws of 1904, chap. 490; now Gen. Corp. Law [Consol. Laws, chap. 23; Laws of 1909,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Lancaster v. Amsterdam Improvement Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Wehrenberg v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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