Williams v. Scullin
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Comity Circuit Court.—Hon. Rudolph Hiezel, Judge. (1) A foreign corporation can not sue in this state without complying with the law prescribing tfie; terms upon which, it may enter and so do business herein, and the terms upon which it may enforce a contract in our courts.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Comity Circuit Court.—Hon. Rudolph Hiezel, Judge. (1) A foreign corporation can not sue in this state without complying with the law prescribing tfie; terms upon which, it may enter and so do business herein, and the terms upon which it may enforce a contract in our courts. To maintain an action in Missouri a foreign corporation must show compliance with the provisions of the act of April 21, 1891. Session Laws, 1871, p. 75; 2 Cook on Stock & Stockholders [3 Ed.], sec. 694, and cases in note 2, p. 998 to above section; 2 Morawetz on Corporations [2 Ed], secs. 661,…
1Opinion of the CourtRombauer, P. J.
The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the McG-regory Brick Company in St. Louis county for $464 and costs. He caused executions to be issued upon such judgment, and, upon their return nulla bona, he caused John Scullin to be summoned as garnishee of the execution defendant. The garnishee by answer denied all indebtedness to the corporation. The plaintiff by denial of the answer charged that the garnishee subscribed for one hundred shares in *32the corporation at $50 a share; that the corporation thereafter made successive calls upon such shares, exhausting the entire amount; that upon such…
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