State Ex Rel. Northern Life Insurance v. Norton

Petitioner relies on the case of Power Manufacturing Co. v. Saunders, 274 U. S. 490 (71 L. Ed. 1165). In that case the supreme court of the United States held that a statute of similar import as § 44, O. L., discriminated against a foreign corporation authorized to do business in the state of Arkansas. In that state a domestic corporation must be sued in the county in which it maintains an office or has a place of business. Power Manufacturing company, the foreign corporation sued, had established a fixed place of business in the state of Arkansas and otherwise complied with the laws of that…