Hening & Hagedorn v. Glanton

1. Under the general rule that a corporation as an artificial person must dwell in the state of its creation, and has no legal existence outside of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it was created (Union Branch R. Co. v. East Tennessee R. Co., 14 Ga. 327, 328 (9), 341; Port Royal R. Co. v. Hammond, 58 Ga. 523, 526), its incorporators or stockholders as the corporate entity cannot hold meetings in another State for the performance of strictly corporate functions such as accepting the charter and organizing the corporation. Duke v. Taylor, 37 Fla. 64 (19 So. 172, 31 L. R. A. 484; 53…