Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Chatters

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• holding “that, in the absence of an authoritative state decision giving a nar- rower scope to the power of attorney filed under the state statute, it operates as a consent to suit” (citing Pa. Fire, 243 U.S. 93)
• “Even when present and amenable to suit it may not, unless it has consented, be sued on transitory causes of action arising elsewhere which are unconnected with any corporate action by it within the jurisdiction.” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).