Merriman v. Harter

LUJAN, Justice.

The plaintiff’s assignor, a foreign company, has its principal place of business' in Portland, Oregon. From there it gives instructions by correspondence. It has an agent in New Mexico whose duty is to solicit (canvass) pupils, whose applications for membership must be sent to the home office at Portland, Oregon, for acceptance. No contracts are closed here. No instruction is given here. No lessons or training material are sold here. The applicants receive their instructions through certain written lessons and training material mailed from Portland, Oregon. They send their…