Wilson v. Martin-Wilson Automatic Fire Alarm Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, under the Pub. Sts. c. 151, § 2, cl. 11, and the St. of 1884, c. 285, to reach and apply certain letters patent in payment of a debt due to the plaintiff from the defendant.
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Bill in equity, under the Pub. Sts. c. 151, § 2, cl. 11, and the St. of 1884, c. 285, to reach and apply certain letters patent in payment of a debt due to the plaintiff from the defendant. The bill alleged that the defendant was a corporation established by law at Portland in the State of Maine, and' having a usual place of business in Boston ; that the defendant owed the plaintiff one thousand dollars for personal services as its treasurer and electrician, which amount the defendant had admitted to be due to the plaintiff, and had often promised to pay to him; that the defendant “ had a…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
It was agreed at the argument that the bill should be taken to mean that the defendant is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, and has a usual place of business in Boston in this Commonwealth, and that the papers show that it had appointed in writing the commissioner of corporations to be its attorney, upon whom process against it might be served pursuant to the St. of 1884, c. 330, § 1, and that by *27its attorney in the suit it had accepted service “to the same extent that the plaintiff would have obtained service by leaving a copy of this writ with the commissioner of…
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