Boylston v. Stauffer

Suit is brought against a nonresident corporation and an individual who is claimed to have been negligent -in the operation of a motor vehicle on a highway in Connecticut while acting as the agent or servant of said corporation.

It has been stipulated that the automobile in question was, in-fact, the property of the individual defendant. Service of the process was made upon the corporate defendant in accordance with the terms of section 5473 of the General Statutes, Revision of 1930, only. It has interposed a plea in abatement questioning the jurisdiction of the court on the claim that the…