Legal Opinion
RELATIONAL, LLC v. Hodges
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 8, 2010No. 09-3625PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
In 2005 Robert A. Hodges personally guaranteed $750,000 of debt that his company Laminate Kingdom, LLC (“Laminate”) owed to Relational, LLC (“Relational”). When Laminate went bankrupt in 2007, Relational sued Hodges on the guaranty, but by then Hodges had sold his Florida home and returned to his native United Kingdom without leaving any forwarding information. Relational hired a private investigator to track him down. The private investigator located an address for Hodges in the U.K. and effectuated personal service. To prove this, Relational submitted a return of…
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