Stoner v. Phillipi

Citations

• 41 Pa. Super. 118
• 1909 Pa. Super. LEXIS 21

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Foreign corporations — Contract—Doing business — Registration — Individual liability.</p> <p>1. Where the officers of a foreign, corporation enter into a contract in Pennsylvania for the purchase of a machine to be manufactured, and the corporation is registered a few days after the contract was made, and long before the machine was completed and delivered, and it appears that the company had done no other business in Pennsylvania and that the manufacturers knew that the persons with whom they dealt represented the corporation, the officers making the contract cannot be held individually liable for the price of the machine. v</p> <p>2. Isolated transactions, commercial or otherwise, taking place between a foreign corporation domiciled in one state and a citizen of another state are not a doing or carrying on of business by the foreign corporation within the latter state.</p>