Porter v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

1 Neb. 14

• Court: Nebraska Supreme Court
• Decided: July 1, 1871
• Status: Published

Opinion

Mason, Ch. J.

The defendant transacts all its business in this State, at its office in Omaha. The person served with this summons is superintendent of this office, as well as of that at Council Bluffs. He has the general direction and management of its business at the former office. An agent who is invested with the general conduct and control, at a particular place, of the business of a corporation, is a managing agent, within the meaning of the 75 th section of the Code, which authorizes service of summons on a managing agent of a foreign corporation, and it is immaterial where he resides.

It is not necessary to decide here whether the appearance entered by the defendant was such as to give the court jurisdiction, if the service was insufficient. I think a defendant may appear specially to object to the jui’isdiction of the court, either over his person or the subject matter of the suit, without waiving his right to be heard on the question in bank. But if, by motion or by any other form of application to the court, he seek to bring its powers into action, except on the question of jurisdiction, he will be deemed to have appeared generally. Such application concedes a cause over which the court has power to act. The judgment must be affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.