Eastern Livestock Co-Operative Marketing Ass'n v. Dickenson

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This action for the alleged breach of an executory contract of sale of 140 head of cattle resulted in a judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $3,954 in the District Court to which the suit had been removed from the Circuit Court of Russell County, Virginia. On this appeal the defendant contends that the judgment should be reversed on the grounds (1) that the defendant is a Maryland corporation' not doing business in Virginia, and therefore the court was without jurisdiction to entertain the suit, and (2) that there was no substantial evidence to show that the defendant…