 | United States. Supreme Court - 1872 - 1546 páginas
...Indiana, anil the court, after referring to previous decisions, said that it must be regarded as nettled that a suit by or against a corporation in its corporate name is a suit by or against citizens of the State which created it, and therefore that ease must be treated... | |
 | 1875 - 462 páginas
...that State, so far as the question of jurisdiction of this court is concerned. In other words, when a corporation is created by the laws of a State, the...legal presumption is, that its members are citizens of that State ; and a suit by or against a corporation in its corporate name must be conclusively presumed... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1878 - 1018 páginas
...The principle has been settled ever since the case of Louisville RR C'o. Y. Letson, 2 How. 497, that where a corporation is created by the laws of a State,...legal presumption is that its members are citizens of such State. Where a corporation is created by competent authority — authority as competent within... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis - 1880 - 362 páginas
..." Where a corporation is created by the laws of a State," (we now advance to some new doctrine,) " the legal presumption is that its members are citizens...which alone the corporate body has a legal existence." That is laid down as a legal presumption. " A suit by or against a corporation in its corporate name... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 780 páginas
...Charleston Railroad Co. v. Letson, 2 How. 497, it had been decided, upon full consideration, " that where a corporation is created by the laws of a State,...alone the corporate body has a legal existence ; and tbat a suit by or against a corporation, in its corporate name, must be presumed to be a suit by or... | |
 | 1894 - 1266 páginas
...citizens of another state." In the subsequent case of Muller v. Dows, 94 US 444, it was held that, "where a corporation is created by the laws of a state,...which alone the corporate body has a legal existence." It was further said in that case that "a suit by or against a corporation, in its corporate uame, may... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1896 - 1242 páginas
...v. Wheeler. 1 Black, 296, the court, speaking by Chief Justice Taney said: "Where a corporation la created by the laws of a state, the legal presumption Is that its members are citizens of the state which created the corporate body; that a suit by or against a corporation, In Its corporate name, must... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1894 - 782 páginas
...the citizens of another State." In the subsequent case of Muller v. Dows, 94 US 444, it was held that where a corporation is created by the laws of a State,...which alone the corporate body has a legal existence. It was further said in that case that a suit by or against a corporation, in its corporate name, may... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 974 páginas
...corporation for the purposes of jurisdiction — residence of corporations when created by two States. When a corporation Is created by the laws of a State, the...which alone the corporate body has a legal existence. A suit by or against a corporation, In its corporate name, must be presumed to be a suit, by or against... | |
 | 1885 - 916 páginas
...R. Co. v. Wheeler, 1 Black, 286 (§§ 1351-52, supra). The law is there stated to be settled, that, where a corporation is created by the laws of a state,...legal presumption is that its members are citizens of such state; that a suit by or against such corporation, in its corporate name, must be presumed to... | |
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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. 
