Greyvan Lines, Inc. v. Maltbie

While the effect of the failure of a foreign corporation doing business in New York to obtain a certificate of authority required by section 210 of the General Corporation Law, is limited to a disability to sue in the courts of the State upon a contract made here, and while this disability has been accorded an extremely literal judicial interpretation, there exists in the statute a prohibition against doing business which concededly was violated by the petitioner.

The nature of its transactions, so regularly conducted as to become the basis for a claim that it was in bona fide operation as a…