Tetley v. Rock Falls Manufacturing Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a Wisconsin corporation, sued defendant, an Illinois corporation not engaged in business in Wisconsin, for the recovery of the stim of $566, part purchase price of a hearse manufactured by the defendant.
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Appeal from an order of the circuit court for La Crosse county: E. C. Higbee, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff, a Wisconsin corporation, sued defendant, an Illinois corporation not engaged in business in Wisconsin, for the recovery of the stim of $566, part purchase price of a hearse manufactured by the defendant. At the time the contract for the hearse was entered into and for a period of four years prior thereto, one A. W. Hanson, residing at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, acted as the agent of the defendant in this state to procure orders for the purchase of defendant’s hearses upon a commission basis. 0…
1Opinion of the CourtDoerfler, J.
The provisions of the statutes involved are the following:
“Section 2637. Actions against corporations shall be commenced in the same manner as personal actions against natural persons. The summons and the accompanying complaint or notice aforesaid shall be served, and such service *402held of the same effect as personal service on a natural person, by delivering a copy thereof as follows: . . .
“(13) If against any other foreign corporation, to any such officer being within the state, or to any agent having charge of or conducting any business therefor in this state.
Defendant’s counsel raise the…
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