Huck v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.

This appeal is concerned with a problem of construction of sec. 262.09 (4), Stats. So far as material here such statute reads as follows:

“If the defendant is a foreign corporation . . . and (a) is doing business in Wisconsin at the time of service, . . . service may be made ... by delivering . . . without the state a copy of the summons to any officer, director, or managing agent of the corporation.”

While Rock Island’s brief raises an issue as to whether its agent, upon whom service of process was made at Chicago, is a “managing agent,” counsel for such railroad stated in oral argument that…