Weidman v. Byrne
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. Grant Emerson, Judge. A corporation chartered by a foreign State is a foreign corporation and is liable to attachment as a nonresident debtor, even though it may have an officer and doing business in the State in which the attachment is issued.
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Appeal from the Jasper Circuit Court. — Hon. Grant Emerson, Judge. A corporation chartered by a foreign State is a foreign corporation and is liable to attachment as a nonresident debtor, even though it may have an officer and doing business in the State in which the attachment is issued. City of St. Louis v. Wiggins, 40 Mo. 580; 1st Shinn Attachment, section 105; 6 Corpus Juris 51. In the case at bar the defendant cannot collaterally attack the judgment or raise the issue as to whether the grounds of attachment should be sustained for the reason that no plea in abatement was filed so that…
1Opinion of the CourtBradley, J.
This is a suit in conversion. Plaintiff alleges that he was the owner and entitled to the possession of an air compressor and some other personal property of the value of $1000, and that the defendants wrongfully converted said property to their own use to plaintiff’s damage- The answer was a general denial. Whatever title plaintiff had was derived from an execution sale under certain proceedings in a justice of the peace court. The cause was submitted to the court on an agreed statement of facts, and the finding was for defendants, and plaintiff appealed.
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