Southern Sawmill Co. v. American Hard Wood Lumber Co.

Citations

• 115 La. 238
• 38 So. 977
• 1905 La. LEXIS 650

Syllabus

<p>PROCESS — SERVICE—NONRESIDENT CORPORATIONS.</p> <p>1. In an action in which a creditor seeks to obtain a personal judgment against its asserted debtor, a nonresident corporation, process served upon the latter’s secretary while temporarily in the state is not sufficient to enable the plaintiff to recover judgment.</p> <p>2. The defendant had no property, real or personal, in the state.</p> <p>3. Beyond isolated transactions, it did not conduct a business in this state.,</p> <p>4. The transaction which gave rise to a claim on the part of plaintiff was not one brought about by defendant’s secretary, and it did not fall within the provision of the statute which renders it possible to serve process and cite “each person or persons, company or firm, thus transacting business for the corporation.” The secretary is not of that number, not having transacted the “business for the corporation.”</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>