Ricketts v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia granting a motion to vacate the service of a summons.
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Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia granting a motion to vacate the service of a summons. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: The appellant, Oscar J. Ricketts, as plaintiff, brought this action in the supreme court of the District against the appellee, the Sun Printing & Publishing Association, to recover damages for the alleged publication of a libel in the New York Sun, a newspaper published by said association in the city of New York. The defendant is alleged to be a corporation duly incorporated under the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
The service of summons was had under section 1537 of the District Code (31 Stat. at L. 1419, chap. 854), which relates to service on foreign corporations. So much of that section as is pertinent reads as follows: “In actions against foreign corporations doing business in the District all process may be served on the agent of such corporation or person conducting its business.”
To sustain the service of summons in this case it must appear that the defendant corporation was doing business in the District, and that Diehard V. Oulahan, upon whom service was made, was its agent or the person…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. SpratleySupreme Court of the United States · 1899
- In Re HohorstSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance v. MeyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
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- District Grocery Stores, Inc. v. Brunswick Quick Freeze Co.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1954
- Harold Noel Arrowsmith, Jr. v. United Press InternationalCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
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