Legal Opinion
Sarieddine v. Moussa
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided October 2, 1991No. 05-90-01035-CVPublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CHAPMAN, Justice.
Samir R. Sarieddine sued to recover on a note on which Atef Jawad Moussa defaulted. Sarieddine’s sole point of error is that the trial court erred in dismissing the case under the doctrine of forum non conve-niens. We reverse and remand.
FACTS
Affidavits on file show that Sarieddine, a Lebanese citizen, has resided in Bellevue, Washington, since 1987. 1 Moussa, also a Lebanese citizen, has resided in Bahrain since 1981. 2
In 1981, Moussa agreed to purchase all of Sarieddine’s stock in C.M.C. Group, a Luxembourg corporation, for $4.4 million. Moussa defaulted under the…
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