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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1011', '§ 1011', '§ 1332', '§ 1358', '§ 1358', '§ 1358', '§ 1283']

BUCK STOVE & RANGE CO. V. VICKERS, 226 U. S. 205 - Volume 226 - 1912 - Full Text - US Supreme Court Center - USSC Cases - Nolo
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The facts, which involve the application of § 1011, Rev.Stat., to writs of error to state courts and also the constitutionality of a statute of Kansas affecting the right
of corporations of other states to do business in Kansas, are stated in the opinion.
By suits begun in the District Court of Morris County, Kansas, and consolidated for purposes of trial and judgment, seven judgment creditors of one Vickers sought to set aside, as fraudulent, a conveyance by him, and to
Our power to review this ruling is challenged because of the statutory provision that there shall be no reversal in this Court upon a writ of error "for error in ruling any plea in abatement, other than a plea to the jurisdiction of the court." Rev.Stat. § 1011. This provision has been part of the judiciary acts from the beginning, and often has been applied upon writs of error to the circuit and district courts, but never to a case coming here from a state court. Piquignot v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co., 16 How. 104, and Stephens v. Monongahela Bank,, 111 U. S. 197, illustrate its application in cases brought here from
The statute of Kansas under which the plea was sustained is embodied in the General Statutes of 1905, and provides, in §§ 1332-1336, that to entitle a corporation organized under the laws of another state to do business in Kansas, it must (a) make application to, and obtain the permission of, the Charter Board of the state, (b) accompany its application with a fee of $25, (c) file with the Secretary of State its irrevocable consent that process against it may be served upon that officer, (d) be organized for a purpose for which a domestic corporation may be organized, (e) pay to the State Treasurer, for the benefit of the permanent school fund, a specified percent of its authorized capital, and (f) file with the Secretary of State a certified copy of its charter. And, by § 1358 the
The four corporations against which the plea was sustained were corporations for profit, organized under the laws of states other than Kansas, were not banking, insurance, or railroad corporations, were doing business in Kansas -- a purely interstate business -- and had not complied with the statute just described. There can be no doubt, therefore, that if the statute, especially § 1358, is valid as against such corporations, the plea was rightly sustained -- otherwise, it should have been overruled. So the question for decision is whether, consistently with the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States, a state may thus restrict and burden the right to do interstate business within its limits. This precise
question was presented to this Court and decided in the negative in the case of International Textbook Co. v. Pigg, 217 U. S. 91 -- a case in which the Supreme Court of Kansas had applied the provisions of § 1358 (§ 1283, Gen.Stat. 1901) to a corporation of another state, doing an interstate business in Kansas. And the decision of this Court in that case was shortly thereafter followed in the similar case of International Textbook Co. v. Lynch, 218 U. S. 664, brought here on error to the Supreme Court of Vermont. It is due to the Supreme Court of Kansas to observe that this Court's decision in the Pigg case had not been made when that court's decision in the present case was given; but, in saying this, we would not be understood as implying that this case announced any new doctrine in the Pigg case, for it but reiterated and applied principles which were already well recognized, as was shown in the earlier cases of Paul v. Virginia, 8 Wall. 168, 75 U. S. 182; Cooper Mfg. Co. v. Ferguson, 113 U. S. 727, 113 U. S. 734, and Crutcher v. Kentucky, 141 U. S. 47, 141 U. S. 56.
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