Giger v. District Court for County of Summit

This original proceeding involves the question of whether a trial court can properly exercise in personam jurisdiction over a Missouri resident who executed a contract of guarantee pertaining to a lease of real property located in this state.

Although the pleadings in the trial court in this case involve rather complicated third-party practice, the issue and the facts we are concerned with here can be simply stated. Lois G. and Robert A. Theobald, as lessors, consented to the assignment of a lease of certain real property in *306Breckenridge, Colorado to Harold Giger. Part of the consideration for…