Kentucky Finance Corp. v. Paramount Auto Exchange Corp.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from orders of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. Turner, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff is a corporation organized under the laws of and existing and doing business in the state of Kentucky. Defendant corporation is of Wisconsin. Plaintiff instituted in the circuit court for Milwaukee county a replevin action based upon allegations to the effect that it was the owner of and lawfully entitled to a certain automobile.
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Appeal from orders of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: W. J. Turner, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff is a corporation organized under the laws of and existing and doing business in the state of Kentucky. Defendant corporation is of Wisconsin. Plaintiff instituted in the circuit court for Milwaukee county a replevin action based upon allegations to the effect that it was the owner of and lawfully entitled to a certain automobile. That about July 1, 1918, at the city of Louisville, Kentucky, the defendant C. H. Allen wrongfully took the said automobile from plaintiff’s possession and unlawfully…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
Defendant justifies the order requiring plaintiff’s secretary, a resident of Louisville in the state of Kentucky, under the laws of which state the plaintiff corporation was organized and doing business, to appear for examination 'at Milwaukee and to produce plaintiff’s books and papers, as being a proper exercise of the power vested in the trial court under the provisions of sub. 7, sec. 4096, Stats., which reads as follows:
“In case a foreign corporation is a party, the examination of its president, secretary, other principal officer, assignor or agent or employee, or the person who was…
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