 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1889 - 842 pages
...court, citing the above case with approval, declared the principle settled, in the following language: "That where a corporation is created by the laws of...existence; and that a suit by or against a corporation, iu its corporate name, must be presumed to be a suit by or against citizens of the State which created... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1862 - 658 pages
...the courts of the United States against a citizen of another State. 4. Where a corporation is ereated by the laws of a State, the legal presumption is,...which alone the corporate body has a legal existence. 5. A suit by or against a corporation, in its corporate name, must be presumed to be a suit by or against... | |
 | Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 658 pages
...says : " After these successive decisions, the law upon this subject must be regarded as settled ; and a suit by or against a corporation, in its corporate name, must be regarded as a suit by or against the citizens of the State which created it." And the chief justice... | |
 | Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1868 - 598 pages
...admissible for the purpose of withdrawing a suit from the jurisdiction of a court of the United States. " A suit by or against a corporation in its corporate name " must be regarded " as a suit by or against citizens of the State which created it." I must therefore hold,... | |
 | Law - 1875 - 438 pages
...says Judge Mason, in delivering the opinion of the Court of Appeals, in Stephens v. Phomix Ins. Co., "that where a corporation is created by the laws of...suit by or against a corporation in its corporate capacity must be presumed to be a suit by or against citizens of the State which created the corporate... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Erasmus Peshine Smith, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 704 pages
...creation. HAND— VOL. n. 20 Opinion of the Court, per MASON, J. It is also held, that where a coporation is created by the laws of a State, the legal presumption...suit by or against a corporation, in its corporate capacity, must be presumed to be a suit by or against citizens of the State which created the corporation... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1890 - 832 pages
...court, citing the above case with approval, declared the principle settled, in the following language: "That where a corporation is created by the laws of a State tho legal presumption is that its members are citizens of the State in which alone the corporate body... | |
 | United States. Circuit Courts, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 648 pages
...The principle has been settled ever since the case of Louisville R. R. Co. ». Letson, 2 How. 497, that where a corporation is created by the laws of...legal presumption is that its members are citizens of such State. Where a corporation is created by competent authority— authority as competent, within... | |
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Where a corporation is created by the laws of a State, the legal presumption is, that its members are citizens of the State in which alone the corporate body has a legal existence. 
