Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. v. Kane
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals affirming a decree of the District Court, which dismissed the bill in a suit brought by the appellant to restrain the appellee from prosecuting an action in a state court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
The appellee William R. Kane, a citizen and resident of New Jersey, having in the year 1917 commenced in the Supreme Court of that State an action at law against appellant, a corporation of Illinois, seeking recovery of $20,000 damages for conversion of certain personal property, and having sought ' to acquire jurisdiction over defendant in personam by service of the summons and complaint upon the Secretary of State, under a statute that made him the- proper official to be served, in the absence of a person designated by the company itself in the year 1910 as its agent upon whom process…
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