Legal Opinion
Phelps v. Kingston
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided December 7, 1987No. 87-036PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
The plaintiffs, Nancy Phelps and her husband Richard Phelps, appeal from the Superior Court’s (Gray, J.) dismissal of their complaint for lack of in personam jurisdiction over the defendant, Haskell Kingston, D.M.D. For the reasons stated below, we hold that the superior court does have in personam jurisdiction over the defendant, and therefore reverse and remand.
During the late winter or early spring of 1985, plaintiff Nancy Phelps, a New Hampshire resident, developed what she later found to be a cancerous parotid gland tumor at the corner of the right side of her jaw. In late March of that…
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