Allen v. Alleghany Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. This was a suit begun in the Supreme Court-of New Jersey by the Alleghany Company, to recover the amount due upon a promissory note dated at New York, July 16, 1900, given by the plaintiffs in error, under the firm name of I. N. E. Allen & Co., for $1,989.54, upon which payments amounting to $1,000 were endorsed.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY. This was a suit begun in the Supreme Court-of New Jersey by the Alleghany Company, to recover the amount due upon a promissory note dated at New York, July 16, 1900, given by the plaintiffs in error, under the firm name of I. N. E. Allen & Co., for $1,989.54, upon which payments amounting to $1,000 were endorsed. The declaration was upon the common counts, but annexed was a copy of the note, with a notice that the action was brought to recover the amount due thereon. The defendants pleaded four several pleas: 1. General issue. 2. That the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brown-,
after, making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the ..court.
The 'defendants,- plaintiffs in error -here,. pleaded .that the ■note upon which-suit was brought was executed in the State of New York, and that under the laws of that State no-foréign corporation^ could do business thefe without a certificate of the .Secretary of State that it had complied with all the requirements of law to authorize it to'do'business there; and that no such corporation could maintain any action in that State unless, prior to the making of Such contract, it had procured such…
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