Linder Industrial Machinery Co. v. Berry

This is an appeal from a final judgment which reads in pertinent part:

THIS CAUSE was tried before the Court without a jury. The Court heard the evidence and the argument of counsel and has carefully considered them and the authorities cited.

The Defendant, Chester Berry, was a partner in 1974 in a coal company in Kentucky. At that time he also was interested in a rock pit in Bay County, Florida, some business interests in Miami and in Venezuela. The inference was that his main place of business was in Kentucky, although at the time he resided in Florida.

Berry became a substantial customer of…