Jones v. Hartford Insurance
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActioN tried at Fall Terra, 1882, of OraNGE Superior Court, before Shipp, J. The summons was served on James Southgate, an agent of the defendant company. The action is to recover the amount of a fire insurance policy. The defendant company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut, and at the time of issuing the policy was doing business in the town of Durham, in this state.
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Civil ActioN tried at Fall Terra, 1882, of OraNGE Superior Court, before Shipp, J. The summons was served on James Southgate, an agent of the defendant company. The action is to recover the amount of a fire insurance policy. The defendant company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the state of Connecticut, and at the time of issuing the policy was doing business in the town of Durham, in this state. J. W. Atkinson, of the city of Wilmington, was, and is the general agent of the company for the state, appointed under the provisions of the act of 1876 — 77, ch. 157, § 3, and…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
Prior to the passage of the act of 1877, oh. 157, the service of the summons upon the local agent of a foreign corporation was unquestionably good.
The act of 1875, ch. 168, amendatory of paragraph one, section 82, chapter 17 of Battle’s Revisal, provides, that if a suit be against a corporation, the summons may be served upon the president, or other head of the corporation, secretary, treasurer, cashier, director, or managing or local agent thereof; provided, “that any person receiving or collecting money within this state for or on behalf of any corporation of this or any other state or…
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