Moulin v. Trenton Mutual Life & Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Tliis was an action of debt, brought upon a judgment obtained by the plaintiff against the defendants in the Supreme Court' of the state of New York, in Erie county, on the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for fifteen hundred and forty-six dollars debt, and nine debars costs.
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Tliis was an action of debt, brought upon a judgment obtained by the plaintiff against the defendants in the Supreme Court' of the state of New York, in Erie county, on the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for fifteen hundred and forty-six dollars debt, and nine debars costs. The defendants pleaded that they had never been The defendants pleaded, that they had never been served with v process, or made appearance or defence to said suit in the state of New York; that at the commencement of said suit they were not residents or citizens of the state of New York, or existing as…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice.
When this case was before the court on a former occasion, it was decided that when a corporation confines its business within the state by which it is chartered, the service of process upon one of its officers within the jurisdiction of another state is not service upon the corporation : and that even if such service of process were authorized by law of the state within which it was made, it would not here be regarded as a valid service, or as bringing the corporation within the jurisdiction of the court by whom it was issued.
In so deciding, we adhere to the familiar…
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- Hill v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Bushel v. Commonwealth InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1827
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