Read v. LaSalle Extension University

The appellant enrolled with the appellee for a correspondence course in law. After some time the university notified appellant that it considered him disqualified for further membership in its training program and refunded to him the money which he had paid. Thereupon the appellant sued to compel the appellee to reinstate him. Process was served in the District of Columbia on one R. B. Owens, a sales representative of the appellee.

Contending that the university, an Illinois corporation, was not doing business in the District of Columbia and that Owens did not stand in such relation to it that…