Street Railway Advertising Co. v. Lavo Co. of America

The following opinion was filed May 6, 1924:

Eschweiler, J.

By sub. 2, sec. 1770b, Stats. 1921, the plaintiff as a foreign corporation was not permitted to transact business in this state because'of its failure to have complied with the required provisions of the same section as to filing a copy of its articles.

By sub. 10, sec. 1770b, every contract made by .or on behalf of such foreign corporation affecting the personal liability thereof before it shall have so complied with that law shall be wholly void on its behalf but enforceable against it.

The plaintiff in this case has obtained a…