York Mfg. Co. v. Colley

Appellant sued appellees, Y. B. Colley and J. E: Billingsley, for a balance due upon a certain written contract and to foreclose a lien upon certain ice manufacturing machinery. The defense was made that appellant was a foreign corporation organized for pecuniary profit; that it maintained an office and was doing business in Texas, and had not obtained a permit therefor, and for such reasons was not authorized' to maintain a suit on said contract in any of the courts of the state. By supplemental petition appellant admitted that it was a foreign corporation without a permit to do business in…