Legal Opinion
Mann v. Equitable Gas Company
District Court, N.D. West Virginia
Decided August 30, 1962No. Civ. A. 681-FPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARRY E. WATKINS, Chief Judge.
The defendant, Equitable Gas Company has been dismissed out of this diversity of citizenship action because there is no diversity as to it, leaving only Peerless a's a defendant. Peerless has moved to dismiss because (1) the Court lacks jurisdiction in personam as to it, because at the time the alleged cause of action arose, Peerless was not incorporated under the laws of the State of West Virginia, was not licensed to do, nor was it doing business in West Virginia, and was not subject to service of process through acceptance of service by the Auditor of West…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- International Shoe Co. v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Hanson v. DencklaSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Erl Anger Mills, Inc. v. Cohoes Fibre Mills, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1956
- Smyth v. Twin State Improvement Corp.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1951
- Grobark v. Addo MacHine Co., Inc.Illinois Supreme Court · 1959
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Doggett v. Electronics Corp. of Am., Combust. Con. Div.Idaho Supreme Court · 1969
- Andersen v. National Presto Industries, Inc.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1965
- Hodge v. Sands Manufacturing CompanyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1966
- Chovan v. EI Du Pont De Nemours & CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1963
- Continental Oil Company v. Atwood & Morrill CompanyDistrict Court, D. Montana · 1967
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