24 Mich. 38 | Mich. | 1871
Service having been returned in the circuit court on a summons issued in favor of the. relator., against a foreign corporation, as having been made on the secretary, the service was set aside as irregular and unauthorized; and a mandamus is asked to vacate that action and restore the cause.
We think the statute {Comp. L., § 1/S35) providing for service of process on various named corporation officers was not designed to reach foreign corporations. It. could only be made to do so by interpolating various clauses and qualifications, which are not in any way referred to by the law, and which, could only be ascertained by decisions from time to time, upon peculiar circumstances. The statute needs no such modification if confined to our own corporations; and we must assume that as to foreign corporations, except as to cases where special provision has been made otherwise, the remedy must be sought as at common law. See Newell v. Great Western R. W. Co., 19 Mich., 336.
Mandamus refused.