Dunbar Furnace Co. v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 237 Pa. 192
• 85 A. 106
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 916

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Foreign corporations — Doing business within State — Registration—Establishment of agencies — Act of April 22, 1874, P• L. 108.</p> <p>1. The State is not concerned about the number of offices, or places of business, a foreign corporation may choose to establish, but when two or more are established, the law requires an agent to be registered for each separate office or place of business. The corporation, and not the State, determines whether in the conduct of its business more than one office, or place of business, is required.</p> <p>2. In those cases in which it has been held necessary for a foreign corporation to register more than one agent in this State there was in fact separate and apart from the originally designated place of business, a separate business place, or a branch store, or an independent establishment, opened for the general transaction of business in the community where the new place was established.</p> <p>Corporations — Foreign corporations — Registration—Act of April 22, 1874, P. L. 108.</p> <p>3. A corporation engaged in the iron business having ore mines in Michigan, a principal office in Ohio, an office for the transaction of business in the city of Pittsburgh, and a registered agent in the State of Pennsylvania, has sufficiently complied with the requirement as to registration of the Constitution and the Act of April 22, 1874, although it has not registered an additional agent, or established another place of business in Pennsylvania where it stored its ores in yards leased by it for the purpose, to be smelted by a furnace company under a contract made in Ohio by which the ores were to be sold and delivered to the furnace company from time to time, and paid for by pig iron delivered to the iron company, and stored by it in the yards which it leased.</p>