Shepherd v. F. J. Kress Box Co.

Holt, J.,

the opinion of the court.

In 1903 the P. J. Kress Box Company was organized and chartered as a joint stock corporation under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, with its principal office in Pittsburgh, in that State.

On June 19, 1908, there was incorporated in Virginia *423by the same people another joint stock company bearing the same name, designed to carry on business of the same character with its principal office at Petersburg.

These companies were close corporations, were both controlled by P. J. Kress and were operated from the Pittsburgh office. Their affairs were to a certain…