Hall's Safe Co. v. Walenk

Citations

• 42 Pa. Super. 576
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 381

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Foreign corporations — Registration—Doing business.</p> <p>1. A foreign corporation which merely files an order for goods and delivers the same in Pennsylvania, without maintaining an office in this state or transferring any portion of its capital to this state, or prosecuting its ordinary business here, may maintain an action of replevin without having previously registered in compliance with the Act of April 22, 1874, P. L. 108.</p> <p>Bailment — Lease of chattel — Action.</p> <p>2. In an action of replevin to recover a chattel leased under a bailment, where it appears that the defendant has failed to pay the rental provided by the contract, the defendant cannot set up as a defense that the chattel was not what it was warranted to be.</p> <p>Replevin — Set-off—Action.</p> <p>3. A set-off is not admissible in an action of replevin.</p>