McDaniel v. Gulf Oil Corporation

Mr. Associate Justice Baker

delivered the Opinion of the Court, with Mr. Associate Justice StukEs filing a Dissenting Opinion. The Majority Opinion follows:

I concur in so much of the opinion of Mr. Justice Stakes as holds that the appellant, Gulf Oil Corporation is engaged in business in Sumter County, South Carolina, and that A. T. Heath, the distributor of appellant’s products, is its agent upon whom process may be served.

But the summons in this action was not served upon A. T. Heath. It was served by the delivery of a copy thereof to H. Q. Heath, an employee of A. T. Heath, and responsible…