SANWA BUSINESS CR. CORP. v. G.B. "BOOTS" SMITH CORP.

No. 87-893.

548 So.2d 1336 (1989)

SANWA BUSINESS CREDIT CORPORATION v. G.B. "BOOTS" SMITH CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 18, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William B. Hairston, Jr. and William B. Hairston III of Engel, Hairston & Johanson, Birmingham, and Daniel G. Blackburn of Stone, Granade, Crosby & Blackburn, Bay Minette, for appellant.

Henry A. Callaway III and Davis Carr of Hand, Arendall, Bedsole, Greaves & Johnston, Mobile, for appellee.


MADDOX, Justice.

This appeal presents the question whether a corporation not qualified to do business in Alabama can sue and recover damages for the alleged breach of a contract to move and set up an oil drilling rig.

The appeal is from a final judgment in favor of the plaintiff entered upon a jury verdict in a breach of contract and fraud action. The lawsuit arose out of the transport and assembly of two oil rigs and the alleged nonpayment of charges for...

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