International Cotton Seed Oil Co. v. Wheelock
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Tried before Hon. W. W. Wilkerson. This is an action in assumpsit by Wlieelock against the International Cotton Seed Oil Company. The suit was brought in the city court of Birmingham. The defendant was a corporation whose domicile and principal place of business were at Selma.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Tried before Hon. W. W. Wilkerson. This is an action in assumpsit by Wlieelock against the International Cotton Seed Oil Company. The suit was brought in the city court of Birmingham. The defendant was a corporation whose domicile and principal place of business were at Selma. A plea to tlie jurisdiction of the court Avas filed by the defendant alleging that its domicile and principal place of business Avas in Dallas county, which Avas a different county from the county in which the suit aauis brought, namely, Jefferson county; and that the defendant did not…
1Opinion of the CourtSuable, J.
— Section 4207 of the Code provides that “A foreign or domestic corporation may be sued in any county in which it does business by agent.” The plea in abatement calls for a construction of that statute with reference to the facts relied on to sustain the plea. Those facts are undisputed and are substantially, that the defendant is a domestic corporation engaged in the business of buying cotton seed and manufacturing and selling its products and having its principal place of business at Selma, Dallas county. Within the twelve months next.before this suit was begun and afterwards during the…
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