Hickory Memorial Hospital, Inc. v. News Syndicate Co.

A North Carolina corporation which conducts a hospital in that State here sues a New York corporation and a resident of New York for libel. The action is based upon a publica*80tion made in a newspaper published in New York. Defendants move for an examination of plaintiff before trial in support of affirmative defenses, and ask also for the production of books and records. Plaintiff is not and never was engaged in business in New York and has no office or officer here and its books and records are not located here.

It is, of course, obvious that the mere fact that plaintiff is a foreign…