Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc., 261 U.S. 174 (1923)

Name: Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc., 261 U.S. 174 (1923) - Syllabus
Author: U.S. Supreme Court

Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc.

No. 242

Argued January 18, 1923
Decided February 19, 1923
261 U.S. 174

APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

Syllabus

Under the provision of the Copyright Act that suits "may be instituted in the district of which the defendant or his agent is an inhabitant, or in which he may be found," jurisdiction cannot be acquired over a corporation in a district where it has no office and does no business, by serving process on its president while there temporarily and not on business of the corporation. P. 177.

Affirmed.

Appeal from an order of the district court quashing service of a subpoena ad respondendum.

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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc., 261 U.S. 174 (1923) in 261 U.S. 174 261 U.S. 176. Original Sources, accessed April 17, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=EX15RZAQE28DPDX.

MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc., 261 U.S. 174 (1923), in 261 U.S. 174, page 261 U.S. 176. Original Sources. 17 Apr. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=EX15RZAQE28DPDX.

Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc., 261 U.S. 174 (1923). cited in 1923, 261 U.S. 174, pp.261 U.S. 176. Original Sources, retrieved 17 April 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=EX15RZAQE28DPDX.

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