Tillinghast v. Boston, Co.

Citations

• 38 S.C. 319
• 17 S.E. 31
• 1893 S.C. LEXIS 63

Syllabus

<p>1. Foreign Corporations — Service—Jurisdiction.—An action instituted, without attachment, against a foreign corporation by order for publication in a New Hampshire newspaper, followed by personal service on its managing agent in that State, based upon a contract made in this State, dismissed for want of jurisdiction in the courts of this State to render a personal judgment against a non-resident corporation having no property or agent here. The authority given by section 155 of the Code to make service of a summons, “in respect to a foreign corporation only when * * * the cause of action arose therein,” does not authorize a personal judgment on such a corporation.</p> <p>2. Petition for Rehearing granted, where the court had, perhaps, been misled by the confusion arising from hearing two oases together.</p>