Southern Creosoting Co. v. Whitfield

This is an action at law by the appellee to recover from the appellant, a corporation created under the laws of the state of Louisiana and domiciled at*Slidell in that state, the price of eighty-seven yellow pine poles which the appellant had purchased from him. Process was served on *478an agent of the appellant, and it appeared and filed two pleas to the jurisdiction of the court which seemed to set forth: (1) The person on whom the process was served was not such an agent as the statute requires therefor; (2) the process was not served in the proper county; and (3) the appellant is not doing…