Legal Opinion
Hobert M. O'Neal v. Hicks Brokerage Company and George B. Wolfe, Inc., of Which Hicks Brokerage Company Is
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 21, 1976No. 75-2280PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARKE, District Judge:
This appeal is taken from the Order of the District Court of South Carolina dismissing Hicks Brokerage Company [hereinafter referred to as “Hicks”] as a party defendant. With the assistance of extensive discovery, the District Court concluded that defendant Hicks had insufficient South Carolina contacts to require the corporation to litigate plaintiffs’ claims in a South Carolina court.
This suit arose out of an accident between two trucks in the northern part of North Carolina on January 4, 1972. Plaintiff O’Neal was the driver of one of the trucks which was owned by…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- International Shoe Co. v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Goldlawr, Inc. v. HeimanSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Marve A. Dubin v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Annie Nell Ratliff and Henry Ratliff v. Cooper Laboratories, Inc., Alice W. Nichols v. Sterling Drug Company, Inc., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1971
- Mayo Clinic, Edward S. Judd and D. O. Ferris v. Edward KaiserCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Dillon v. Numismatic Funding Corp.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1977
- Columbia Briargate Company, a Limited Partnership v. First National Bank in Dallas Vaughn Pearson and A.S. Kyzer, Jr.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1983
- Choon Young Chung v. Nana Development CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1986
- Carroll Porter Lillian Porter v. Robert L. GroatCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1988
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