Case Name: Kentucky Finance Corporation, Appellant, vs. Paramount Auto Exchange Corporation, Respondent
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1923-10-20
Citations: 181 Wis. 551
Docket Number: 
Parties: Kentucky Finance Corporation, Appellant, vs. Paramount Auto Exchange Corporation, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 181
Pages: 551–551

Head Matter:
Kentucky Finance Corporation, Appellant, vs. Paramount Auto Exchange Corporation, Respondent.
October 20, 1923.
Adverse examination'. Foreign corporations: Attendance of officer within state: Constitutional law.
The requirement of sub. 7, sec. 4096, and sub. 2, sec. 4097, Stats., that an officer of a foreign corporation which has brought an action in the state may be required to submit to an adverse examination within the state, is invalid, as denying to the corporation the equal protection of the laws. Kentucky Finance Corp. v. Paramount Auto Exch. Corp. 171 Wis. 586, reversed.
See Same Case, 262 U. S. 544, 43 Sup. Ct. 636.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This case, reported in 171 Wis. 586, 178 N. W. 9, having been decided by this court upon appeal from orders of the circuit court for Milwaukee county which orders were by this court affirmed, and an appeal from such judgment having been taken to the supreme court of the United States and said court having reversed the judgment of this court as shown by its mandate now on file:
It is ordered and adjudged, in accordance with said mandate, that the former judgment of this court entered June 1, 1920, be and the same is hereby in all things vacated and set aside; and
It is further ordered that the orders of the circuit court appealed from be and the same are reversed, with costs; and the cause is remanded with directions to reinstate plaintiff's complaint and cause of action, and for further proceedings according to law.