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PYA/Monarch, Inc. v. Sowell's Meats & Services, Inc.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Decided June 16, 1997No. 2683PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CURETON, Judge.

Jimmie W. Sowell (Sowell), and Sowell’s Meats & Services, Inc.. (SMS), appeal from the trial judge’s order according full faith and credit in South Carolina to a North Carolina default judgment in favor of PYA/Monarch, Inc. (PYA). We reverse. 1

I. FACTS

Sowell is president of SMS, which cuts and packages meat for retail sale only in South Carolina. PYA is a large multistate wholesaler which distributes foodstuffs to industrial or business clients. PYA and its predecessors supplied “box meat” to SMS and its predecessors for over twenty years. In August 1994, Sowell executed a PYA…

2Cases cited18 opinions

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3Cited by6 opinions

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