GFI COMPUTER INDUSTRIES, INC. v. FRY

No. 72-2269.

476 F.2d 1 (1973)

GFI COMPUTER INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Errol D. FRY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing June 11, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay M. Vogelson, Carl Generes, Dallas, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Ray Besing, Gerald P. Urbach, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee.

Carl Abramson, Dallas, Tex., for other interested parties.

Before JONES, GODBOLD and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


GODBOLD, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Fry was sued by GFI, a corporation of which he had been an officer and director. A default judgment on liability was entered against him by the court, and a jury then assessed damages of $471,803. We reverse and remand.

Fry was a resident of Dallas, Texas, from the filing of suit in December 1970 until around April 1971, when he removed to Spanish Wells, a small island in the Bahamas some 1500 miles distant from Dallas, the...

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