International Harvester Co. of America v. Kentucky

Citations

• 234 U.S. 579
• 34 S. Ct. 944
• 58 L. Ed. 1479
• 1914 U.S. LEXIS 1109
• 3 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 2902

Syllabus

<p>It is essential to the rendition of a personal judgment against a corporation that it be doing business within the State; but each case must depend upon its own facts to show that this essential requirement of jurisdiction exists.</p> <p>The presence of a corporation within a State necessary to the service of process is shown when it appears that the corporation is there carrying on business in such sense as to manifest its presence within the State, although the business may be entirely interstate in its character.</p> <p>The fact that the business carried oh by a corporation is entirely interstate in its character does not render the corporation immune from the ordinary process of the courts of the State.</p>