General Electric Co. v. Best Electric Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by the General Electric Company against the Best Electric Company and others. On motion by defendants to quash service.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
This is a suit for the infringement of a patent. The defendant is a corporation of Delaware, which has its factory, and in every other than a strictly legal sense, its principal place of business, in Pittsburgh, in the Western district of Pennsylvania. Process has been served upon one who has the exclusive agency for selling its goods in this district. It has appeared specially to object to the jurisdiction and to move to quash the service of process.
The sales agent is'paid a commission oí 7*4 per cent, on the amount of sales made by him or any one else within this…
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- Green v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1907
- St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. of Texas v. AlexanderSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
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