James Clark McReynolds

“ Every contract made by or on behalf of any such foreign corporation, affecting the personal liability thereof or relating to property within this state, before it shall have complied with the provisions of this section, shall be wholly void on its behalf and on behalf of its assigns, but shall be enforceable against it or them.'
The original proceeding was instituted March 30, 1913. ”

“ Where interstate commerce is not directly affected, a state may forbid foreign corporations from doing business or acquiring property within her borders except upon such terms as those prescribed by the Wisconsin statute. ”

“ In support of the claim that subsection 10, section 1770b as construed by the court below conflicts with the due process clause it is said:
'The contract between the defendants in error and the Realty Company and the deeds delivered in compliance therewith were all made in Illinois. They have been declared void in the state of Wisconsin. So applied the statute deprives plaintiffs in error of their property without due process of law.'
Allgeyer v. Louisiana, 165 U.S. 578, 591, 17 Sup. Ct. 427, 41 L. Ed. 832, is relied upon as adequate authority to support the point presented ”