Holder Turpentine Co. v. M. C. Kiser Co.

The Kiser Company brought an action against the Holder Company on promissory notes under seal. The defendant in abatement and also in bar pleaded in effect that the plaintiff company was a foreign corporation that had not complied with Chapter 5717, Acts of 1907, and that under said statute the payment of the *314notes could not be enforced. A demurrer to tbe plea in abatement was sustained and tbe demurrer to tbe plea in bar was overruled. On November 25th, 1913, the plaintiff filed replications alleging that the transaction was interstate commerce and not subject to the statute. In February,…