CENTURA BANK v. PEE DEE EXP., INC.

No. 947SC665.

458 S.E.2d 15 (1995)

119 N.C. App. 210

CENTURA BANK, Plaintiff, v. PEE DEE EXPRESS, INC., Jean M. Westberry, Leon S. Westberry, Dorothy B. Freeman, and Charles F. Freeman, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 6, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Poyner & Spruill, L.L.P. by J. Nicholas Ellis, Rocky Mount, for plaintiff-appellee.

Narron, Holdford, Babb, Harrison & Rhodes, P.A. by C. David Williams, Jr., Wilson, for defendant-appellants Jean M. Westberry and Leon S. Westberry.


MARK D. MARTIN, Judge.

The question presented is whether the trial court erred by finding defendants had sufficient minimum contacts with North Carolina to justify the assertion of personal jurisdiction. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

In February 1991 Pee Dee Express, Inc. (Pee Dee), contacted Earl B. Mikell, Jr. (Mikell), president of M & W Truck Sales, Inc., of Florence, South Carolina, about purchasing or leasing trucks for use in Pee Dee's...

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