Legal Opinion
Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Company, Inc. v. Checkers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 28, 1985No. 83-1422PublishedCited by 185 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.
This case, instituted in the district court by Pepsi-Cola Metropolitan Bottling Co., Inc. (“Metropolitan”) against a customer, Checkers, Inc. (“Checkers”), to collect an indebtedness of $61,603.21, indicates that collecting a virtually undisputed debt may not be easy.
Thwarted by Checkers’s insolvency, Metropolitan amended its complaint to include Checkers’s principal, one Randolph L. White (“Randolph”); his wife, Patricia; and two closely held corporations of the Whites, Bentley-Royce Associates, Inc. (“Bentley”) and Professor Chips, Inc. (“Chips”). The…
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