State ex rel. M. Pressner & Co. v. Scott

EAGER, Chief Justice.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition instituted in this Court. We issued our provisional rule and the respondent filed his return. All the facts essential to a determination of the question of jurisdiction are conceded, and the question is one of statutory construction. More specifically, the issue is the validity of an attempted service of process on two unregistered foreign corporations under § 351.630,1 as *540amended by Laws 1961, pp. 257-258, Cum. Supp.1963. Substantially the same amendment was made of § 355.375, at the same time and in the same bill.

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