Jensen v. Philadelphia, Morton & Swarthmore Street Railway Co.

Citations

• 201 Pa. 603
• 51 A. 311
• 1902 Pa. LEXIS 894

Syllabus

<p>Corporations—Street railways—Service of summons—Proper county—■ Trespass—Negligence.</p> <p>Although the entire roadbed of a street railway company may be in one county, where also it maintains its principal oflice for the meeting of its stockholders and the transaction of other business, yet suit in trespass may be maintained in another county for a cause of action arising in the first county, and a good service may be had upon the president at his residence in the second county, where it appears that both the president and the secretary of the company reside in the second county, and that the company maintains in this county an office occupied by the secretary and the company’s typewriter, where much of the correspondence is carried on ; where the board of directors meet; where the corporate seal is kept for a part of the year, and affixed to corporate documents; where stock certificates are attested and issued; where the company’s ledger account is kept, and much other business, including a part of its banking business, is transacted.</p>