State of South Carolina v. W.T. Rawleigh Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Stabler.

This action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas for Edgefield County by the State of South Carolina against the defendant company, a nonresident corporation, to recover the sum of $7,300.00, alleged to be due as penalties for doing business in this State without complying with the re quirements of an Act of the Legislature of March 24, 1922 (32 St. at Large, p. 1023, as amended by Act March 20, 1923 [33 St. at Large, p. 9]), providing for domestication by foreign corporations. Service was made on one B. G. Bryan, a resident of…