Stutsman v. Hilltop Farm Feed Co.

Thé sole question before this court on this appeal is the jurisdiction of the Washington District Court over the person of the defendant, a nonresident corporation, having no officers or agents in Iowa. The precise question is whether or not at the time service of original notices in the instant cases was made upon the president of the defendant-corporation, he being a nonresident, he was present in the state for the sole purpose of being a witness in certain cases being tried in said court and thus granting to the corporation an immunity from such service. The trial court sustained special…