Reynolds v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 3,1915, against the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kansas and alleged to have a usual place of business in Boston, the American Express Company, a joint stock association organized under the laws of the State of New York and having a usual place of business in Boston, and the Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporation organized under the laws of…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 3,1915, against the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kansas and alleged to have a usual place of business in Boston, the American Express Company, a joint stock association organized under the laws of the State of New York and having a usual place of business in Boston, and the Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York and having a usual place of business in Boston, alleging that the plaintiff is the bearer and holder…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The question at issue in this-case is the jurisdictional one, whether service of process has been made upon the defendant railway company, who hereafter will be referred to as the defendant.
The facts are these. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company is a corporation organized under the laws of Kansas. Its lines of railroad are located in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and perhaps in other States, but none in Massachusetts. In 1912, it entered into an agreement whereby George E. Marsters, a resident within this Commonwealth, was to represent its railway system as New England…
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