Ferrari v. Level Coal Mining Co., Inc.

Full title: Ferrari et ux. v. Level Coal Mining Co., Inc. et al., Appellants

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Dec 1, 1947

55 A.2d 755 (Pa. 1947)

55 A.2d 755

Opinion

November 25, 1947.

December 1, 1947.

Courts — Jurisdiction — Foreign corporations — Internal management.

The courts of this state will not take jurisdiction of a proceeding where the relief sought concerns the internal management and control of a foreign corporation.

Before MAXEY, C. J., LINN, STERN, PATTERSON, STEARNE and JONES, JJ.

Appeal, No. 187, Jan. T., 1947, from decree of C. P., Northumberland Co., Feb. T., 1947, No. 16, in case of Louis J. Ferrari et ux. v. The Level Coal Mining Co., Inc., et al. Writ of mandamus vacated and proceeding dismissed.

Mandamus proceeding.

Motion by plaintiffs for judgment on pleadings granted, opinion by TROUTMAN, J. Defendants appealed.

Robert V. Moser, for appellants.

Russell S. Machmer, for appellees.

PER CURIAM, December 1, 1947:

The plaintiffs' petition for writ of mandamus affirmatively shows that the defendant company is a foreign corporation and that the relief sought concerns the internal management and control of the corporation. The writ awarded by the court below will, therefore, be vacated and set aside and the proceeding dismissed for want of jurisdiction of the subject matter (see Hopkins v. Great Western Fuse Company, 343 Pa. 438, 440, 22 A.2d 717; also Business Corporation Law of May 5, 1933, P. L. 364, Section 1001, 15 Pa.C.S.A. § 2852-15 Pa.C.S.A. § 1001) at the plaintiffs' costs.

So ordered.