The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Case summary: The plaintiff CP filed a suit for breach of contract against the defendant NUC in the state of Tennesse and succeeded. When the plaintiff tried to collect the judgement in the state of Minnesota, the defendant, person B, a registered agent of NUC, claimed that the judgement was unenforceable as he was not served proper notice.
To find: The invalidation of Tennessee judgement by Minesotta court. The proper service of process when it was mailed to the defendants' medical clinic and to the wife of the physician, who owned the clinic opened the letter.
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