Legal Opinion
Sugg v. Hendrix
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 9, 1944No. 10938PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLER, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for personal injuries in which the process was quashed in the Court below on the ground that the statute under which the process was had (Chapter 246, Laws of Mississippi, Acts of 1940) was unconstitutional. The statute 1 is very similar, in form and substance, to those well-known state statutes which authorize service of process upon a state official as the agent of the operator of a motor vehicle on the public highway in cases where a cause of action arose out of such operation. The Plaintiff, a citizen of Mississippi, alleged that the Defendant, a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Pennoyer v. NeffSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Crowell v. BensonSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Hess v. PawloskiSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Wuchter v. PizzuttiSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Kane v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1916
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Elkhart Engineering Corporation v. Dornier WerkeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
- State Ex Rel. Weber v. RegisterSupreme Court of Florida · 1953
- Breeland v. Hide-A-Way Lake, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Pasternack v. DaloDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1955
- McDaniel v. Textile Workers Union of AmericaCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1952
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