Central Motor Lines, Inc. v. Brooks Transportation Co.

We are asked to determine whether, upon the facts of this case, the service of process upon J. M. Goldston, one time lessee of defendant’s intrastate franchise, or the subsequent service upon the Secretary of State, was effectual to bring into the jurisdiction of a court of this State the defendant, a foreign corporation, in an action brought by a resident corporation on a transitory cause of action arising in another state.

We are of the opinion that the relation of lessee of defendant’s franchise did not constitute J. M. Goldston in any respect agent of the defendant upon whom process might…