J. A. Maloney & Co. v. Tatum

The appellee, W. S. F. Tatum, filed a declaration in the circuit court of Forrest county against J. A. Maloney & Co., as a corporation whose domicile and post office address was 1182 Broadway, in the city of New York, seeking to recover the sum of one thousand seven hundred forty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents the value of three carloads of lumber alleged to have been sold to such corporation. The declaration alleged that one B. A. Cragin, Jr., was the agent of the said corporation in the city of Hattiesburg, upon whom process could be served, and the summons for the defendant was executed…