powers should cease, the extinction of its right to build was held not to destroy, ipso facto, its corporate existence, nor extinguish its general right to land which it had acquired. N. Y., B. & E. Ry. Co. vs. Motil, 81 Conn. 466.

Jurisdiction. Though for the purpose of suing and being sued in the Federal courts a corporation is treated as a "citizen" of the state which incorporates it, and for some purposes as a citizen of the United States, United States vs. Northwestern Express Co., 164 U. S. 686; the privilege of exemption from suit outside the district of domicil may be waived by pleading to the merits in a suit brought against it outside. Central Trust Co. vs. McGeorge, 151 U. S. 129. But a corporation sued in a personal action in a court of a state where it neither does business nor is incorporated does not waive the right to object to the jurisdiction of the state court for want of sufficient service of the summons by appearing specially to petition for the removal of the action into a Federal court, Goldey vs. Morning News, 156 U. S. 518; and a foreign corporation cannot be deprived of the right of removal to the Federal courts by a state statute requiring it to agree to submit to process in the state courts as a condition of doing an interstate business in that state. So. Pac. Co. vs. Denton, 146 U. S. 202.

Service of Process on a corporation is provided for by Gen. St., Rev. of 1902, §§ 571, 572, as follows:

§ 571. Process how served: service on corporations. Except as otherwise provided, process in civil actions shall be served by leaving a true and attested copy of it, including the declaration or complaint, with the defendant, or at his usual place of abode, in this state. Process in civil actions against the following described classes of defendants shall be served as follows: in actions against a county, upon one of the county

commissioners; against a town, upon its clerk or one of its selectmen; against a city, upon its clerk, assistant clerk, or upon its mayor; against a borough, upon its clerk, or upon the warden or one of its burgesses; against a school district, upon its clerk or one of its committee; against other municipal or quasi-municipal corporations, upon its clerk, or upon its chief presiding officer or managing agent. In actions against private corporations, service shall be made either upon the president, the vice-president, the secretary, the assistant secretary, the treasurer, the assistant treasurer, the cashier, the assistant cashier, the teller, the assistant teller, or its general or managing agent, or upon any director resident in this state. In case none of such officers or directors can be found, service may be made upon the person in charge of the business of the corporation, or upon any person who is, at the time of service, in charge of the office of the corporation in the town in which its principal office or place of business is located. In actions against private corporations established under the laws of the United States or of any other state or foreign country, service may be made upon any of the aforesaid officers or agents, or upon the resident attorney of such corporation appointed pursuant to § 83 (of this act).

§ 572. Service of process by advertisement or otherwise. If any corporation organized under the laws of this state shall have no officer or agent upon whom process against it can be served, any judge, clerk, or assistant clerk, of the superior court, court of common pleas, or the district court of Waterbury, to which any action against said corporation is brought, may authorize service of process in said action upon said corporation by advertisement, or may make such other or further order concerning such service of process as may be deemed reasonable, and service made in accordance with such order shall be deemed sufficient service of process upon said corporation.

§ 575. Service on nonresident in cases of quo warranto. An information in the nature of quo warranto brought against a nonresident usurping any office in a corporation organized under the laws of this state, may be served upon said nonresident by leaving a copy with the secretary of said corporation if he resides in this state, and, if not, then with the treasurer or assistant treasurer of said corporation, and in case no such officer resides within this state, then service thereof may be made upon the attorneygeneral of this state; and any such service shall be service upon such nonresident defendant and shall be sufficient notice to the defendant, if he is not a resident of this state, to enable the relator to bring said action to trial.

Corporation as garnishee. The General Statutes, Revision of 1902, expressly authorize making a corporation a garnishee, and provide for the manner in which it may make disclosure and the effect thereof. The more important sections are as follows:

§ 880. Process of foreign attachment. When the effects of the defendant in any civil action in which a judgment or decree for the payment of money may be rendered, are concealed in the hands of his agent or trustee so that they cannot be found or attached, or where a debt is due from any person to such defendant, or where any debt, legacy, or distributive share, is or may become due to such defendant from the estate of any deceased person or insolvent debtor, the plaintiff may insert in his writ a direction to the officer to leave a true and attested copy thereof and of the accompanying complaint, at least twelve days before the session of the court to which it is returnable, with such agent, trustee, or debtor of the defendant, or, as the case may be, with the executor, administrator, or trustee of such estate, or at the usual place of abode of such garnishee; and from the time of leaving such copy, all the effects of the defendant in the hands of any such garnishee, and any debt due

from any such garnishee to the defendant, and any debt, legacy, or distributive share, due or that may become due to him from such executor, administrator, or trustee in insolvency, not exempt from execution, shall be secured in the hands of such garnishee to pay such judgment as the plaintiff may recover.

§ 881. Citing garnishee to disclose. The plaintiff may insert in the writ a direction to the garnishee— except he be described as an executor, administrator or trustee in insolvency, in which case he shall not be so cited in to appear before the court to which the process is returnable and there disclose on oath whether he has in his hands the goods or effects of the defendant, or is indebted to him; and at any time during the pendency of a foreign attachment suit any garnishee who might have been so cited in but was not, may be cited by the court to appear before it, at a time appointed, to make such disclosure.

§ 882. Disclosure by garnishee to officer. The officer serving process upon any person or corporation named as garnishee shall, at the time of service, make inquiry as to the amount then owed by said garnishee to the defendant in said action; and if said garnishee shall thereupon disclose to the said officer whether anything is then owed to said defendant, and if so, how much, said officer shall then and there indorse such disclosure on said process as a part of his return thereon; and such disclosure shall excuse said garnishee from appearing, unless thereafter summoned as a witness, before the court to which said process is returnable, and said court may without further proof find the fact to be as shown by such disclosure.

§ 883. Corporation as garnishee; disclosure; nonappearance. If any corporation made a garnishee and cited in to disclose, was not indebted to, and had no effects of, the defendant in its possession when the complaint was served upon it, it need not appear

before the court to disclose, if it shall cause the affidavit of its treasurer or its paymaster stating such fact to be filed in said court, on the return day of the complaint. If such affidavit shall be so filed and the plaintiff shall bring a scire facias against such corporation upon a judgment rendered against the defendant in the complaint, and it shall be found on the trial that the corporation was not indebted to the defendant and that it did not have his effects in its possession at the time of the service of the complaint, judgment shall be for the corporation to recover its costs.

§ 884. Liability of garnishee for not appearing. If any garnishee, cited in to disclose before a court held in a town other than that in which he resides, was not indebted to the defendant, and had no effects of the defendant in his possession when the writ was served upon him, it shall be a sufficient excuse for his not appearing before said court if he file therein on the return day of the writ his affidavit stating such facts; but if any garnishee, when duly cited in to disclose, shall fail to appear without reasonable excuse, or shall refuse to disclose on oath whether he has any effects of the defendant in his possession, or is indebted to him, then, if the plaintiff shall bring a scire facias against him on a judgment recovered against the defendant in the suit, judgment shall be rendered against such garnishee personally for the costs accrued on the scire facias, though it shall appear that he had no effects of the debtor in his possession and was not indebted to him.

The court may

§ 885. Disclosure by garnishee. examine upon oath any garnishee cited in to disclose as to whether, at the time of the service of the foreign attachment, he had effects of the defendant in his hands, or was indebted to him, and may hear any other proper evidence respecting the same; and if it appear that such garnishee had not effects of the de