Ware v. Hamilton Brown Shoe Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appear from Chancery Court of Montgomery County. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The appellee corporation originally filed this bill in the Chancery Court of Elmore County against the appellants; and the case was subsequently removed, by consent, to Montgomery County.
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Appear from Chancery Court of Montgomery County. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The appellee corporation originally filed this bill in the Chancery Court of Elmore County against the appellants; and the case was subsequently removed, by consent, to Montgomery County. The bill was filed on October 15, 1889. The bill averred: (1.) That defendants Mary H. Ware' and Robert Y. Ware, Jr., were husband and wife ; and that Mrs. Ware became possessed of a house and lot situated at Tallassee, Alabama, by purchase from one Mrs. Bessie J. Wadsworth, and executed to Mrs. Wadsworth a mortgage to…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
A foreign corporation can not do business in a State, without the consent of the State, express or implied, and this consent may be granted with such conditions as the State may see proper to impose, provided only that the conditions are not in conflict with the Constitution, and laws of the United State's, or inconsistent with the jurisdictional authority of the State, or in conflict with the rule, which forbids condemnation without opportunity for defense. — Commonwealth v. N. Y. L. E. & West. R. R. Co., 129 Pa. 463; Paul v. Virginia, 8 Wal. 168; Runfan v. Coster, 14 Pet. 122; St. Clair v.…
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