Legal Opinion
Al-Turki v. Taher
Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)
Decided February 5, 1998No. 11-95-253-CVPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
"WRIGHT, Justice.
The issue in this case is whether the trial court properly declined to assert in personam jurisdiction over Abdul Hadi Taher, a resident and citizen of Saudi Arabia. Abdulrah-man A Al-Turki and the other Saudi Arabian plaintiffs 1 sued Taher in Harris County, claiming that they were defrauded in the 1984 stock offering of a foreign corporation and asserting that the trial court had both general and specific jurisdiction over Taher. However, the trial court granted Taher’s special appearance and dismissed the suit for want of jurisdiction. We affirm.
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