Note and Comment

Authors

Albert V. Baumann Jr, University of Michigan Law School
Stannley E. Gifford, University of Michigan Law School
Donald F. Melhorn, University of Michigan Law School
Ralph W. Aigler, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Interstate Commerce and State Control Over Foreign Corporations - Since Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 519, there seems to have been no real occasion to doubt the power of a state totally to exclude foreign corporations seeking to engage in intrastate business only. The power to exclude being absolute, there has been no question as to the right of the state to allow the entrance of the foreign corporation for such business upon terms, and the terms may be of any sort, reasonable or unreasonable, except that the corporation seeking to enter cannot as a condition precedent to such entry be required to surrender a right or privilege conferred upon it by the federal constitution or statutes. For example, a condition that no case should be removed by the corporation to the federal courts was declared invalid, and the corporation was allowed to remove cases despite the condition.

Recommended Citation

Albert V. Baumann Jr, Stannley E. Gifford, Donald F. Melhorn & Ralph W. Aigler, Note and Comment, 12 Mich. L. Rev. 210 (1914).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol12/iss3/4