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 142 FEDICBAI^ RSPOETEB. �It was Leld in this case that a corporation may consent to be sued in a foreign state in consideration of its being per- mitted to carrj on its business there, and accordingly it was held that such ^ corporation, doing business in Pennsylvania under said statute, was found there within the meaning of the act of congress. The decision is put directly upon the ground that the law of the state required foreign corpora- tions to consent to be "found" there as a condition precedent to their being permitted to transaot business in the state, and that the company in that case had so consented. These are the latest adjudications of the supreme court upon the sub- ject. �In Hayden v. Androscoggin Milis, in the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts, Lowell, C. J., went further, and held that, independently of any local statute, a trading cor- poration is of right suable in a country in which it transacts an important part of its business. �Runkle v. Ing. Co. is in all respects like the case of Ex parte Schollenherger, and was decided upon the authority of that case, and under a similar statute. �In Wilson Packing Co. V. Hiiniet it was held by Drummond, G. J., that a Missouri corporation, owning and possessing a slaughter-house and stock-yard in East St. Louis, Illinois, where beef to be canned by said company was slaughtered and dressed for and in the name of the company, could be sued in the circuit court of the tJnited States for the southern district of Illinois. The liability of such a corporation to be sued in Illinois it was held might be inferred from its right to do business in that state, although there was no express provision of law authorizing service upon it within that state. �In Williams v. Transportation Co., in the United States cir- cuit court for the eastem district of New Jersey, it was held that a foreign corporation, without charter from a state, but transacting business therein and amenable to process of its courts in accordance with local law, is found within the state in the sense of the judieiary acts, and may be sued in the United States circuit courts. It will be seen by an examina- tion of these and other cases that, aecording to the great ��� �