International Shoe Co. v. Lovejoy

Original notice of an action at law commenced in the name of Glenn B. Beers in the district court of Black Hawk county was served upon L. P. Sommerhauser in Linn county as the supposed agent of petitioner, International Shoe Company, in the state of Iowa. The action in which the original notice was served is to recover damages by a landlord against petitioner for the alleged wrongful and fraudulent removal of a stock of shoes from leased premises in the city of Waterloo. The special appearance of the defendant International Shoe Company, the petitioner herein, challenged the jurisdiction of…