Mellon Bank, N. A. v. Southland Mobile Homes of South Carolina, Inc.

This case raises a substantial issue concerning state-court venue of a transitory cause of action asserted against a national bank. For me, the issue merits plenary consideration, and I dissent from the Court’s denial of certiorari insofar as the case concerns one of the two respondents.

Petitioner Mellon Bank, N. A., is a national banking association with principal place of business in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1972, respondent Associates Financial Services Company, Inc., and Mellon executed an agreement under which Associates was to seek out mobile-home dealers whose time-sale contracts for retail…