Webster v. Oregon Short Line Railway

Citations

• 6 Idaho 312
• 55 P. 661
• 1898 Ida. LEXIS 69

Syllabus

<p>Foreign Corporation — Designated Agent — Venue of Actions in Justice’s Court.. — By complying with the requirements of law as to the appointment of an agent upon whom process may be served, a foreign corporation doing business in Idaho requires the same rights, but no greater than those of a citizen, so far as-the venue of actions against it are concerned.</p> <p>Same — Jurisdiction.—Under the provisions of section 4639 of the Revised Statutes, a foreign corporation doing business in this state may be sued in a justice’s court in the precinct in which an injury to property occurs,'to recover damages for such injury, although such precinct may he in a county other than the one in which its principal place of business is, and its duly designated agent to receive process for it resides.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>