Melick v. Central Investment Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Smith

delivered the opinion of the court.

The administratrix resisted the claim in the court below on the following grounds and insists upon them here: (1) Appellee corporation was not authorized, on October 14, 1907, under the Act of 1905 (J. & A. ¶ 2525), as to foreign corporations, to do business and make leases on real property and the lease in question; (2) that real estate brokerage business of buying, selling, holding, reletting and subleasing cannot be carried on in Illinois by a foreign corporation; (3) that appellee had not procured the necessary certificate from…