American Lung Ass'n vV. Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Winchester

This is an appeal by the American Lung Association of West Virginia from an order entered by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County on May 18, 1983, in an action brought to resolve a dispute concerning the proper beneficiaries of a testamentary trust. The Circuit Court of Kanawha County dismissed the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester, Virginia, as a party defendant on the ground that the court did not have jurisdiction over the Bank. The thrust of the court’s decision was that the Bank did not have sufficient contacts with the State of West Virginia to afford the State…