Florsheim Bros. Dry Goods Co. v. Lester
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Lafayette Circuit Court. Charles W. Smith, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, a foreign corporation, organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana, and doing business at Shreveport, in said State, through its president took a mortgage from the appellees at New Lewisville, in the State of Arkansas, to secure the payment of sixteen hundred dollars, with interest, which the appellees owed it for the purchase price of goods sold them on a credit, the…
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Appeal from Lafayette Circuit Court. Charles W. Smith, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, a foreign corporation, organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana, and doing business at Shreveport, in said State, through its president took a mortgage from the appellees at New Lewisville, in the State of Arkansas, to secure the payment of sixteen hundred dollars, with interest, which the appellees owed it for the purchase price of goods sold them on a credit, the debt having matured at the time the mortgage was given. This suit was brought in equity to foreclose said mortgage in…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The only question in this case is whether the taking of a single mortgage in this State, by a foreign corporation, for a past-due indebtedness for goods sold in the foreign State, the domicil of the foreign corporation, is doing business in this State, within the meaning of the constitution and the act of the general assembly above quoted. There can be no doubt that the sale and shipment of the goods was interstate commerce. It does not matter, then, how many sales and shipments there might have been ; they could not be prohibited by the statute. There is…
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