COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY CONRAD RENO. Rec. Sep. 12, 1892 STATE JOURNAL PRINTING COMPANY, MADISON, WIS. PREFACE. The term "non-resident" as herein used means a citizen of the United States who does not reside in the state in which the question arises for decision, or in which the act complained of or relied upon was performed. It does not mean an alien, or a citizen of a foreign country. The term "foreign corporation" means a corporation organized under the laws of a state or country other than the one in which the matter involved arises for settlement, or in which the act complained of or relied upon was performed. The fact that it has a place of business in the latter state does not deprive it of its character of a foreign corpora tion. As there are now fifty-one states in the Union, it follows that every resident of any one state is a non-resident of fifty states; and that every corporation organized under the laws of any one state is a foreign corporation with respect to fifty states. The ownership of property and the transaction of business by non residents and foreign corporations are matters of frequent occurrence; and they often involve questions of great interest and importance. Within the past twenty-five years, since communication and intercourse between residents of distant states were rendered easy, quick and cheap, by railroads, telegraphs and telephones, the law of non-residents and foreign corporations has assumed large proportions, and hundreds of decided cases relating to this subject are scattered through the various reports of state and federal courts. |