Ashley v. Quintard’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““I must confess that there is difficulty in dealing with the logical bearing of the fact that a large part of the corporate property is in- Ohio, and that, if this corporation is amenable to suit in Ohio by general process, which is notice to it for all purposes of process, and may be garnished as to things in its hands and under its control as domestic corporations may be, notice about its shares delivered in Ohio is quite as effectual qua notice as if delivered in Michigan for the excitation of its own action in the premises; that after such notice it may do practicálly, as to those shares, either by way of notice to its shareholder or by way of its dealing with them, anything it might do if the same notice were lodged across the line; and that there is a good deal of barren technicality about the situs of such property, and its shifting from one place to another, as may be convenient for the uses that may happen to be wanted for a situs 'for it. Yet I am convinced that the soundest principles of public policy, private justice, and international or interstate comity and obligation require that shares of stock shall be subjected in invitum, as against an owner not served with process personally, only in the state which created the stock and regulates its incidents by its own laws, and has the sole right to declare how and under what circumstances it shall be liable to judicial process operating alone upon the stock, and not upon the owner.””

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   e.g. McKane v. Burke