Legal Opinion
AMAF International Corp. v. Ralston Purina Co.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 13, 1981No. 79-1078PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant, a District of Columbia corporation, filed suit against appellee, a Missouri corporation, for negligence and/or breach of contract in shipping 600 bags of poultry feed to Nigeria. The order for the poultry feed was placed by telephone call from appellant in the District of Columbia to appel-lee’s officer in Jackson, Mississippi, and correspondence with that office and appellee’s home office in St. Louis, Missouri. The feed was shipped from New Orleans, Louisiana to Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Appellee moved to dismiss the complaint, alleging lack of personal jurisdiction. The trial…
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