Van Deren v. Heineke & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for damages for breach of a contract under which plaintiff held the agency for the sale of threshing-machine feeders manufactured by defendant.

Defendant is a foreign corporation not authorized to transact its corporate business in Kansas, and plaintiff resorted to two methods of service to bring defendant into court in Sedgwick county. One of these was to cause summons to defendant to be served on one J. Wirth Sargent, a member of a firm of lawyers in Wichita employed to look after defendant’s legal affairs. Mr. Sargent…