Nashua River Paper Co. v. Hammermill Paper Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for $13,350.19. Writ dated May 12, 1914. The declaration (omitting an account annexed) was as follows: "The defendant owed the Nashua River Paper Corporation $13,350.19 according to the account hereto annexed and said Nashua River Paper Corporation by an instrument in "writing duly assigned the defendant’s said obligation to one Harris H. Gilman, and said Gilman by a like instrument duly assigned the same to the Babbatassett Paper Company, and said Babbatassett…
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Contract for $13,350.19. Writ dated May 12, 1914. The declaration (omitting an account annexed) was as follows: "The defendant owed the Nashua River Paper Corporation $13,350.19 according to the account hereto annexed and said Nashua River Paper Corporation by an instrument in "writing duly assigned the defendant’s said obligation to one Harris H. Gilman, and said Gilman by a like instrument duly assigned the same to the Babbatassett Paper Company, and said Babbatassett Paper Company by a like instrument duly assigned the same to the plaintiff, so that the defendant owes the plaintiff said…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The question is whether, in a contract between a manufacturer and its sales agent, a provision is valid to the effect that “no action at law, equity or chancery shall be instituted or maintained by the Corporation in any Court of any State of the United States or in any circuit or district court of the courts of the United States against the Company other than in the courts of the Common Pleas of the State of Pennsylvania.” This stipulation occurs in an ordinary commercial contract between a corporation incorporated and domiciled in this Commonwealth and another corporation incorporated under…
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