Vernon Co. v. Trimble

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Knox County dismissing the complaint of The Vernon Company, plaintiff-appellant, seeking to recover damages from John Trimble, defendant. The judgment was entered pursuant to defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint because the plaintiff, a foreign corporation, did not have a certificate to do business in Illinois in violation of section 125 of the Business Corporation Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 32, par. 157.125).

The complaint alleges that on November 15, 1969, the defendant entered into a salesman’s commission contract with the…