WELLS COMPANY v. GASTONIA COMPANY

No. 237.

198 U.S. 177 (1905)

W.L. WELLS COMPANY v. GASTONIA COTTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 8, 1905.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph Hirsh and Mr. Charles W. Tillett, with whom Mr. Murray F. Smith was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Augustus H. Price, with whom Mr. Charles Price, Mr. Armistead Burwell and Mr. Edwin Causler were on the brief, for respondent.


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

As the plaintiff was not entitled to maintain its action in the Circuit Court unless it was a corporation of Mississippi, Great Southern Fire-Proof Hotel Co. v. Jones, 177 U.S. 449, 454, 456, and the authorities there cited, the denial in the answer of knowledge or information sufficient...

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