Robert H. Jackson

“ The Mississippi statute follows a pattern general among the states in requiring qualification and payment of fees by foreign corporations. State courts have generally held such Acts to do no more than to withhold state help from the noncomplying corporation ut to leave their rights otherwise unimpaired. This interpretation left such corporations a basis on which to get the help of any other court-federal or state-that could otherwise take jurisdiction, and free to resort to pledged property, offset and various other methods of self-help. ”