People ex rel. Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. v. Commissioners of Taxes & Assessments

The relator, a foreign corporation, complains of its assessment for the purposes of taxation, and has sued out a writ of certiorari to obtain a vacation or reduction thereof. In its statement to the commissioners the relator .stated that it was organized under the laws of the State of Ohio, having its principal office at Dockland in that State; that it had complied with the provisions of chapter 687, Laws of 1892, being the General Corporation Law, under which foreign corporations are required to obtain a certificate from the Secretary of State as a condition of doing business in this State;…