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- Title: Trojan Engineering Corporation v. Green
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 05, 1936
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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RUGG, Chief Justice. This action is to recover a balance alleged to be due on a contract whereby the plaintiff rendered engineering
services to the defendant and supplied materials for construction work. The plaintiff is a Delaware corporation with its principal
place of business in New York. The defendant is a Vermont corporation. Service was made by trustee process upon two Boston
banks, which answered 'effects' in small amounts, and upon the principal defendant by delivering an attested copy of the writ
to F. J. Dunn, president of the defendant, at his usual place of business in Boston. The defendant appeared specially for
the sole purpose of challenging the jurisdiction of the court on the grounds that it was doing no business within Massachusetts,
that the cause of action arose outside the Commonwealth, that the prosecution of the action in this Commonwealth would unduly
burden its interstate commerce, and that inconvenience to the parties of a trial in Massachusetts should lead the court to
refuse jurisdiction as a discretionary matter. The trial Judge overruled the answer, filed detailed findings, ruled upon the
parties' requests for findings and rulings, and reported the case to this court. These further facts appear from the report: The defendant is a Vermont corporation engaged in the generation and distribution
of gas and electricity within Vermont; one of its transmission lines supplies electricity in a small area across the New Hampshire
boundary. This constitutes an insubstantial part of the business of the defendant, although it is affected with a public interest.
The defendant has no tangible property in Massachusetts and has never engaged in the generation or distribution of electricity
or gas within this Commonwealth.