Palmer v. Avalon Oil Co.

Plaintiff brings this suit to collect certain amounts due him and his minor son on salary, and the sum of $22.56, alleged to have been collected by defendants from certain laborers for account of plaintiff and not paid by defendants, and asks judgment against the defendant corporation in solido.

The suit is in rem, plaintiff alleging that both defendants are foreign corporations not authorized to do business in this State and that neither had designated an agent in this State upon whom service and citation might be made. In order to obtain jurisdiction, plaintiff asked that the property of…