Goldmark v. Magnolia Metal Co.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On demurrer. On ease certified from the Morris Circuit Court. This suit was begun by attachment against the goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, lands and tenements of the Magnolia Metal Company, in an action upon contract. The defendant appeared. The plaintiff thereupon filed his declaration containing the common counts.
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On demurrer. On ease certified from the Morris Circuit Court. This suit was begun by attachment against the goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, lands and tenements of the Magnolia Metal Company, in an action upon contract. The defendant appeared. The plaintiff thereupon filed his declaration containing the common counts. To this declaration the defendant pleaded the following plea: “And the said defendant by John B. Yreeland, its attorney, comes and says that this court ought not to have or take further cognizance of the action aforesaid, because it saith that it the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Depue, Chief Justice.
The argument of this case upon the demurrer having been brought on at the Morris Circuit, the judge certified the case to this court for its advisory opinion upon the following questions:
"First. May an action in attachment be maintained against a foreign corporation having no office or place of business in New Jersey, and which transacts no business here, when the supposed cause of action arose outside of the state, and when such corporation owns real or personal property located within the state which has been attached?”
A…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Cooper v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. v. MahlenbrockSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1899
- Davis v. MegrozSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1893
- Jackson v. JohnsonSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1889
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- Lance Indus. v. EASTERN SPECIALTIES. CO.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1969