West Jersey Ice Manufacturing Co. v. Armour

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 443
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 260

Syllabus

<p>Foreign corporation — Compliance with statutes — Doing business — Burden of proof.</p> <p>When a foreign corporation seeks to enforce a contract made in this state the burden of proof is upon it to show compliance with our laws in order to recover.</p> <p>The words “ doing business ” as used in the Act of April 22, 1874, P. L. 108, are not construed to mean taking orders or making sales by samples, by agents coming into our state from another for that purpose; but where the facts disclose a contract by a foreign corporation for the delivery and storage of ice at designated places in Philadelphia without regard to its source of supply or place of manufacture, there is a doing business within the state within the meaning of the act of 1874. A transaction prohibited by that statute, and an action founded thereupon cannot be maintained.</p>