Chappelle v. Beacon Communications Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that where “a party has maintained more than one residence, the court should focus on the party’s intent”
• stating that “[e]ven though a party may have several places of residence, he or she may have only one domicile at a given time . . . [g]enerally, a ‘domicile’ is distinguished from a ‘residence’ by the permanency and scope of the party’s presence there”
• “Even though a party may have several places of residence, he or she may have only one domicile at a given time.”
• “Because the relevant period for determining [the defendant’s] domicile is the time the action is commenced, which in this case is December [of] 1992, evidence which is probative of [the defendant’s] domicile after that date is not discussed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).