Edwards v. Scott & Fetzer, Inc.

HAYES, District Judge.

This is an action against an Ohio Corporation, its Ohio subsidiary, its President, Secretary-Treasurer and its Georgia agent to recover $120,000 which plaintiff expended as a guarantor of installment contracts sold by Henry Glenn to Fidelity Bank of Durham. The crucial questions on the motion of defendants to quash service and to dismiss is what type of connection or relation Henry Glenn of Durham or J. W. Franklin of Georgia bore to the defendant Scott and Fetzer Company.

This company manufactured and sold Vacuum Cleaners and attachments bearing its trade name “Kirby” in…