Union Pacific Railroad v. Miller

Citations

• 87 Ill. 45

Syllabus

<p>Service of process—on agent of corporation. In a suit against a corporation created by act of Congress, not residing or doing business in this State, and having no office or place of business in this State, service of process upon an agent appointed by the land commissioner of the corporation and its trustees, whose business it is merely to receive and transmit offers for lands and to assist in making sales, will not give the court jurisdiction, such person not being an agent of the corporation, in the sense of the statute.</p>