Citizens' Ins. v. Kountz Line

The suit was brought in personam against the Kountz Tine, the H. C. Yeager Transportation Company, the C. Y. Kountz Transportation Company, theK. R. Kountz Transportation Company, and the M. Messe Transportation Company. These respondents were all incorporated companies, organized under the laws of the state of Missouri. The findings of fact show that they were distinct and independent corporate bodies, each owning in severalty its own property, carrying on its own business, without any sharing of profits by the other companies; the only connection between them .being that there were some…