Klippel v. Mid-Carolina Oil, Inc.

Cureton, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order granting summary judgment to certain of the respondents. The appellants, B.W. and Suzanne Klippel, sued the individual respondents (respondents) on the basis the respondents had previously employed John Watkins as their personal agent to institute a civil suit against the Klippels. The respondents in the instant action were stockholders of two corporations which sued the Klip-pels in the federal court; they were not parties to that suit.1 The federal suit was resolved in favor of the Klippels. The complaint in the case sub judice alleges…