United Lead Co. v. J. W. Reedy Elevator Manufacturing Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of assumpsit. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1905.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ball
Appellant says: “If these statutes shall he construed as prohibiting for all time a foreign corporation from recovering in the courts of this State upon a contract into which it may have entered prior to the time when it takes out a license, then the judgment of the Circuit Court was right, and the statute would then be a statute in bar, and was properly so pleaded. If, on the other hand, the proper construction of this statute is that a foreign corporation may not obtain relief in the courts of the State until it shall first obtain a license authorizing it to do business in the State, and…
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