Donald v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.

Citations

• 241 U.S. 329
• 36 S. Ct. 563
• 60 L. Ed. 1027
• 1916 U.S. LEXIS 1758

Syllabus

<p>The judicial power of the United States as created by the Constitution and provided for by Congress pursuant to its constitutional authority is a power wholly independent of state action, and which, therefore, the several States may not, by any exertion of authority in any form, directly or indirectly, destroy, abridge, limit or render inefficacious. Harrison v. St. Louis & San Fran. B. R., 232 U. S. 318.</p> <p>A State may not prevent foreign commercial corporations doing local business from exercising their constitutional right to remove suits into Federal courts.</p> <p>Section 1770 f, added June 20, 1905, to the Statutes of Wisconsin of 1898, providing for the revocation of the licenses of any foreign corporation to do business within the State in case it removes, or makes application to remove, any action commenced against it by a citizen of that State into a Federal court is unconstitutional as beyond the power of the State.</p>