STERLING DRUG, INC. v. WRIGHT

No. 48603.

342 So.2d 503 (1977)

STERLING DRUG, INC., etc., Petitioner, v. Francis E. WRIGHT, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied April 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Nunez, St. Petersburg, and Henry P. Trawick, Jr., Sarasota, for petitioner.

William F. Blews of Blews & Everhart, St. Petersburg, for respondent.

John R. Bush of MacFarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Tampa, for The Prentice-Hall Corp. System, Inc., amicus curiae.


BOYD, Justice.

Francis Wright filed a complaint for damages against Sterling Drug, Inc., alleging that the corporation manufactured a drug which caused her blindness. Because the corporation has its main office in New York it has designated Prentice-Hall Corporation System as its resident agent in Florida. John Buchanan is the agent of Prentice-Hall who, at the time Wright's complaint was filed, initially received service of process on foreign corporations for whom...

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