Knapp Co. v. Saul

Citations

• 77 Pa. Super. 55
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 207

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Foreign corporations — Registration — Failure to register — Doing business in Pennsylvania — Defense of — Nonregis tration — Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action of assumpsit, where the defense was advanced that the plaintiff was a foreign corporation, doing business in Pennsylvania, and had not registered, as required by the Act of June 8, 1911, P.'L. 710, as amended by Act of April 22, 1915, P. L. 170, hut the evidence was conflicting, the case was for the jury to decide, under proper instructions from the court as to what constituted doing business in Pennsylvania.</p> <p>Whether the contract sued upon was in violation of the act by reason of the fact that the plaintiff was transacting business, and whether his actions constituted doing business within the Commonwealth, was, under the circumstances, a question for the jury, and the court did not err in refusing to give binding instructions for the defendant.</p>