YARBOROUGH & CO. v. SCHOOLFIELD FURN. IND.

21260

275 S.C. 151 (1980)

268 S.E.2d 42

YARBOROUGH AND COMPANY, a North Carolina Corporation, North American Reiss Corp., a Delaware Corporation, the Mead Corporation, Paperboard Products Division, an Ohio Corporation, International Wood Products, Inc., a Tennessee Corporation, and Schutte Pulverizer Company, Inc., a New York Corporation, Respondents, v. SCHOOLFIELD FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC., a subsidiary of Hickory Furniture Company and Hickory Furniture Company, a Delaware Corporation, with its principal place of business in North Carolina, Defendants, of whom Hickory Furniture Company, a Delaware Corporation, with its principal place of business in North Carolina, is Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

July 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry C. Wilson, Jr. of Nash, Chappell & Wilson, Sumter, for appellant.

Philip Wittenberg, of Levi & Wittenberg, Sumter, for respondents.


July 2, 1980.

NESS, Justice:

This appeal is from an order denying appellant Hickory Furniture Company's motion to quash service for lack of in personam jurisdiction. We reverse.

Appellant is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Hickory, North Carolina. Schoolfield Furniture Industries, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary which operates a furniture plant in Mullins, South Carolina. Respondents, all foreign corporations...

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