Knapp

(after stating the facts as above). The contentions of defendants in both cases seem to be directed to the point that, because they are engaged in interstate commerce, they are not “doing business” in the state of California within the terms of the law of said state providing for service of summons. Section 411 of the Code of Civil Procedure of California reads:

And much, if not most, of the argument has been expended in the effort to cite a multitude of cases to the effect that defendants are engaged in interstate commerce, and therefore are not amenable to the laws of the state of California.

[1] Without in any wise attempting to refer to these authorities, it suffices to say that, since the decision in International Harvester Co. v. Kentucky, 234 U. S. 579, 587 , 34 Sup. Ct. 944, 58 L. Ed. 1479 , the fact that a foreign corporation may be engaged in interstate commerce docs not in any wise serve to render it immune from the assertion of jurisdiction by the state courts in any state in which it may be engaged in doing business, and in which appropriate provision is made by the law thereof for the assertion of jurisdiction over it. Atkinson v. U. S. Operating Co., 129 Minn. 232…