International Milling Co. v. Columbia Transportation Co.

A foreign corporation is not immune from the orderly processes of state courts although its business is wholly interstate in char acter. The requirements of justice are paramount, unless submission thereto in the state where jurisdiction is sought imposes an unreasonable obstruction or undue burden upon interstate commerce. Davis v. Farmers Co-op. Equity Co. 262 U. S. 312, 43 S. Ct. 556, 67 L. ed. 996.

The sole question here presented appears to be whether or not the suit begun by levy upon defendant’s ship upon a cause of action arising in another state is an unreasonable burden upon…