Toledo Railways & Light Co. v. Hill

Citations

• 244 U.S. 49
• 37 S. Ct. 591
• 61 L. Ed. 982
• 1917 U.S. LEXIS 1605

Syllabus

<p>An objection to the jurisdiction of the District Court based' on the defendant’s being a corporation not doing business in the State and upon want of representative capacity fa. the person served, is not waived by answering to the merits after a motion to quash the service is overruled, where the answer reasserts the jurisdictional point also, where the defendant participates in the trial only by reiterating the objection and where the judge presiding treats'the ruling on the motion as conclusive because made by an associate.</p> <p>Provision made by a corporation for payment of its bonds and coupons at an office in a particular State and payment of coupons accordingly does not constitute such a doing, of business in that State as renders the corporation liablp to be sued there. So held where the action was upon some of the bonds.</p> <p>There is no merit in the proposition that as a basis for determining jurisdiction the property of a corporation must be regarded as translated from its home State to another State when mortgaged to a trust company of the latter to secure bonds made payable there.</p>