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  "name": "QUEEN CITY COACH COMPANY v. CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE COMPANY",
  "name_abbreviation": "Queen City Coach Co. v. Chattanooga Medicine Co.",
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      "QUEEN CITY COACH COMPANY v. CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE COMPANY."
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        "text": "Pee Oueiam.\nAffirmed on authority of Wynn v. Robinson, 216 N. C., 347, 4 S. E. (2d), 884.\nAffirmed.",
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      "Guthrie, Pierce & Blakeney for plaintiff, appellee.",
      "J. Laurence J ones for defendant, appellant."
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    "head_matter": "QUEEN CITY COACH COMPANY v. CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE COMPANY.\n(Filed 26 November, 1941.)\nProcess \u00a7 8\u2014\nService of summons on nonresident defendant was bad by service on the Commissioner of Revenue under the provisions of ch. 75, Public Laws 1929. The order of the court denying defendant\u2019s motion to vacate the service is affirmed on authority of Wynn v. RoWnson, 216 N. C., 347.\nAppeal by defendant from Ervin, Special Judge, at June Term, 1941,\" of MECKLENBURG.\nCivil action to recover property damage alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant when the automobile driven by defendant\u2019s salesman crashed into plaintiff\u2019s bus on Highway No. 74, between Wadesboro and Rockingham about 10 :00 p.m., 16 December, 1939.\nService of summons was had upon the Commissioner of Revenue of North Carolina, as agent of the nonresident defendant, Chattanooga Medicine Company, under ch. 75, Public Laws 1929.\nThe defendant entered a special appearance and moved to vacate the attempted service of process and to dismiss for want of jurisdiction.\nTouching the operation of the automobile in question, the court found, inter alia, that the automobile was owned and operated by C. D. Moss, Jr., a salesman in the employ of the defendant; that he was traveling through his territory, advertising the defendant\u2019s wares, and was on his way, with the defendant\u2019s permission, to appear in court in Nashville, Tennessee, on a matter personal to himself; that at the time of the collision \u201cthe said C. D. Moss, Jr., was engaged in the course of his employment with the defendant in advertising and undertaking to sell the products of the defendant and in promoting the defendant\u2019s business and was at such time operating his automobile on a North Carolina public highway for the defendant under the general control and direction of the defendant.\u201d\nOn the facts found, the motion to dismiss, made upon special appearance, was denied, and the defendant allowed time to answer or demur to the complaint. Defendant appeals, assigning errors.\nGuthrie, Pierce & Blakeney for plaintiff, appellee.\nJ. Laurence J ones for defendant, appellant."
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