Southwestern Telephone Co. v. Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Co.

Citations

• 108 La. 691

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. In an action brought by a foreign corporation to expropriate property In this State, under Act No. 124 of 1880, a denial, in general, and in specific, terras, of the right to the relief prayed for, is sufficient to put at Issue the capacity of the plaintiff to enter this State for the purpose of carrying: on its business; and, when it appears from its charter, offered by the plaintiff,. that no such right exists, the action will be dismissed.</p> <p>2. Where a corporation is established under the law of another State for the-purpose of constructing and maintaining telegraph and' telephone lines in. certain named counties in that State, such corporation is without authority to extend its operations beyond the limits of the counties designated, and does not come within the meaning of Act 124 of 188'0, which is intended, to apply to foreign corporations that are authorized, so far as they can ber by the States creating them, to carry on their business elsewhere.</p>