WESTCOTT-ALEXANDER, INCORPORATED v. DAILEY

No. 7788.

264 F.2d 853 (1959)

WESTCOTT-ALEXANDER, INCORPORATED, also known as Percoflash Manufacturing Corporation, Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. Robert J. DAILEY, Appellee and Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 11, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward E. Lane, Richmond, Va. (Lane, Rogers & Paul, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee and cross-appellant.

Robert Cantor, Richmond, Va. (Cantor, McMullan & Cantor, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellant and cross-appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge, and PAUL, District Judge.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The defendant, a New Jersey corporation having its principal office and plants in that state and never having been domesticated in Virginia, challenges the jurisdiction of the District Court to render judgment in personam against it. Since the controversy arose out of the defendant's substantial and continuous activity in Virginia, we think the assertion of jurisdiction was neither unconstitutional nor beyond the reach of the governing...

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