Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Cross
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe County Court of Milwaukee County. Tbe complaint alleges that at tbe time of tbe transactions thereinafter set forth tbe plaintiff was, and at tbe commencement of this action still continued to be, a corporation existing under and by virtue of tbe laws of tbe state of Connecticut, and was duly incorporated by an act of tbe legislature of that state entitled “ An act incorporating the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,” approved June 12th, 1846, and was…
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APPEAL from tbe County Court of Milwaukee County. Tbe complaint alleges that at tbe time of tbe transactions thereinafter set forth tbe plaintiff was, and at tbe commencement of this action still continued to be, a corporation existing under and by virtue of tbe laws of tbe state of Connecticut, and was duly incorporated by an act of tbe legislature of that state entitled “ An act incorporating the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,” approved June 12th, 1846, and was authorized to sue in all courts in said corporate name; and that it had its principal place of business in Hartford in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
DixoN, C. J.
Whether foreign corporations have capacity to contract in this state and to sue in our courts, are questions which require no discussion. The counsel for *112tbe appellant concedes, as we think, very properly, that they have such capacity. Certainly no principle can be better settled than that corporations created in one state may transact such business as their charters authorize in another state, provided the business so transacted be not inconsistent with the laws or policy of that state, and contracts arising out of such transactions, not otherwise unlawful, will be…
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