Legal Opinion

Layden v. Endowment Rank Knights of Pythias of the World

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 7, 1901PublishedCited by 8 opinions

ActioN by Minnie O. Layden against the Endowment Hank of the Knights of Pythias of the World, heard by Judge II. JR. Bryan, at September Term, 1900, of the Superior Court of DavidsoN County. The following is the statement of the ease on appeal.

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ActioN by Minnie O. Layden against the Endowment Hank of the Knights of Pythias of the World, heard by Judge II. JR. Bryan, at September Term, 1900, of the Superior Court of DavidsoN County. The following is the statement of the ease on appeal. This was .a civil action returnable to Eall Team of the Superior Court of Davidson County, held on the first Monday in September, 1900, E. B. Bryan, Judge, presiding, for the recovery of throe thousand dollars ($3,000) upon ’an insurance policy issued by defendant company 'on the life .of T. L. Lay-den, plaintiff’s intestate. In apt time, namely,…

1Opinion of the Court

Douglas, J.,

after stating the facts. The point directly presented to us- is- whether a corporation originally organized under’ the laws of the United States, but which has become a domestic corporation of this State, under the provisions of ch. 62 of the Public Laws of 1899, can remove a cause into the Circuit Count of tire United -States- when expressly sued as a domestic corporation. That such a corporation, originally organized under the laws of 'another State, can not do so, is settled in the recent case of Debnam v. Telephone Company, 126 N. C., 831, which is adopted as a part of this…

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  4. Metcalf v. WatertownSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
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