Supreme Court of the United States March 29, 1880, 198 (MacHine Co. v. Gage)

Mr. Justice Swayne

delivered the opinion of the court.

The HoAve Machine Company is a corporation of the State of Connecticut. It manufactured sewing-machines at Bridgeport, in that State, and had an agency at Nashville, in the State of Tennessee. From the latter place, an agent was sent into Sumner County to sell machines there.