Jones v. General Motors Corporation

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Associate Justice Fishburne.

This appeal presents two questions for determination: (a) Was the defendant, General Motors Corporation, a foreign corporation, “doing business” within the State in the sense required to subject it, absent consent, to the jurisdiction of our Courts? (b) Was service of process made on its agent so as to support a personal judgment against it? The lower Court answered in the affirmative, and we are asked to review the judgment.

The plaintiff alleged that he purchased a Buick automobile manufactured by the defendant from a…