Aldrich v. Anchor Coal Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Multnomah County: E. D. Si-iattuck, Judge. This action was brought by E. M. Aldrich and W. S' Dillon, partners, against The Anchor Coal & Development Company, a California corporation, and B. E. Loomis, one of its stockholders, in the Circuit Court of Multnomah County, to recover the sum of two thousand four hundred and two dollars and seventy-two cents upon a contract for work and labor performed for the corporation in building a railway in the state of Washington.
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Multnomah County: E. D. Si-iattuck, Judge. This action was brought by E. M. Aldrich and W. S' Dillon, partners, against The Anchor Coal & Development Company, a California corporation, and B. E. Loomis, one of its stockholders, in the Circuit Court of Multnomah County, to recover the sum of two thousand four hundred and two dollars and seventy-two cents upon a contract for work and labor performed for the corporation in building a railway in the state of Washington. The complaint, after alleging a cause of action against the defendant corporation, avers, in order to charge the defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
1. The first question for our consideration is whether the service upon the general manager of the defendant corporation in the state of Oregon gave the court jurisdiction of the corporation. It appears, from the affidavits in support of and against the motion to vacate the service, that the defendant, being a corporation organized and existing under the laws of California, with its principal office in the city of Oakland in that state, transacted no corporate business, had no property within this state, and -had no agency for the transaction of any portion of its business therein, but that…
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