Legal Opinion

Union Associated Press v. Times Printing Co.

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York

Decided October 1, 1897PublishedCited by 3 opinions

These were actions at law, brought, respectively, by the Union Associated Press and William g. Brewer against the Times Printing Company. The cases were heard on a motion to set aside a service of process.

1Opinion of the Court

LACOAiBIO, Circuit Judge.

Those actions, brought in this court, were begun by service of the summons on an concededly not an officer of defendant. Defendant, however, is a foreign corporation, and it is contended that the person served is its “managing agent"’ here. It is useful, in all cases, to consult the careful opinion in U. S. v. American Dell Tel. Co., 2,9 Fed. 17, and to restate the three conditions which it is there said must concur or co-exist in order to give the federal courts jurisdiction in personam over a corporation created in another slate:

“(1) It must appear as a matter of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Palmer v. Chicago Evening Post Co.New York Supreme Court · 1895
  2. Rector's CaseUnited States Circuit Court · 1881

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Union Associated Press v. Times-Star Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York · 1898
  2. Fontana v. Chronicle-Telegraph Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1897
  3. David Berg Industrial Alcohol Co. v. Sugar Products Co.District Court, D. Puerto Rico · 1918

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