NORFOLK & WEST. RY. CO. v. SIMS

No. 74.

191 U.S. 441 (1903)

NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY CO. v. SIMS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 7, 1903.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Theodore W. Reath and Mr. William A. Guthrie, with whom Mr. Joseph I. Doran was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Robert D. Gilmer, Attorney General of the State of North Carolina, and Mr. James E. Shepherd for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

To the ordinary mind it seems a somewhat startling proposition that a manufacturing corporation, located and doing its main business in a distant city, having no manufactory in North Carolina, no stock in trade, no place for the sale of its goods there, and no agent authorized to sell them, can be compelled to take out a license required...

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