ITCO Corp. v. Michelin Tire Corp.

Full title: ITCO CORPORATION, APPELLANT v. MICHELIN TIRE CORPORATION, COMMERCIAL…

Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

Date published: Aug 29, 1984

742 F.2d 170 (4th Cir. 1984)

Opinion

Nos. 82-2177(L), 82-2178.

Argued April 4, 1984.

Decided August 29, 1984.

Charles Gordon Brown, Chapel Hills, N.C. (Jordan, Brown, Price Wall, Chapel Hill, N.C., John R. Jordan, Jr., Jordan, Brown, Price Wall, Samuel W. Johnson, Meadows, Johnson Spinks, Rocky Mount, N.C., John F. Dienelt, Brownstein, Zeidman Schomer, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellants.

J. Brantley Phillips, Jr., Natalma M. McKnew, Greenville, S.C. (Fletcher C. Mann, Leatherwood, Walker, Tood Mann, Greenville, S.C., Jerry S. Alvis, Young, Moore, Henderson Alvis, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellee.

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of N.C., H.A. Cole, Jr., Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., John R. Corne, Associate Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N.C., on brief, as amicus curiae.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh. Franklin T. Dupree, Jr., District Judge.

Before RUSSELL, MURNAGHAN and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The judgment of the district court is reversed, and this case is remanded for reasons stated in the opinion of the original panel. ITCO Corp. v. Michelin Tire Corp., Commercial Division, 722 F.2d 42 (4th Cir. 1983). Judge Russell dissents for the reasons stated in his dissent to the panel opinion. 722 F.2d at 53-55.