Insurance Co. of North America v. Lone Star Package Car Co.

CONNALLY, District Judge.

In each of the foregoing six actions, a personal judgment is sought against a foreign railroad corporation which owns no line of railroad and operates no trains within this state. None of these defendants has appointed an agent for service, nor consented to suit within the state. Each such defendant, however, for some twenty-five or thirty years has maintained one or more offices within the state for the solicitation of passenger and freight business upon its lines, and perhaps for other ■activity.

In each instance, such defendant challenges the jurisdiction of the…