Mahlon Pitney

“ There being adequate support in the record for the finding of the supreme court of the state that plaintiff in error was doing business in the state, other than interstate commerce, without complying with the statute quoted, the contentions based upon the commerce clause and the due process of law clause alike must fall. For the authority of the state to restrict the right of a foreign corporation to engage in business within its limits or to sue in its courts, so long as interstate commerce be not thereby burdened, is perfectly well settled. ”

“ The court further found as matter of fact that it was the ordinary business of plaintiff in error to send troupes of actors from one theater to another in the state of Tennessee for the purpose of presenting plays to audiences assembled in each separate theater, and from the revenues derived by means of such performances it received an income, and its compensation arose from acts done in Tennessee in the several theaters where the troupes of actors appeared and performed ”

“ That each and every corporation created or organized under, or by virtue of, any government other than that of the state, for any purpose whatever, desiring to own property, or carry on business in this state of any kind or character, shall first file, in the office of the secretary of state, a copy of its charter. ”