Legal Opinion
Jones v. Beech Aircraft Corp.
Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)
Decided May 26, 1999No. 04-98-00983-CVPublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by:
TOM RICKHOFF, Justice.
This accelerated appeal was generated by the trial court’s order sustaining a special appearance by Beech Aircraft Corporation, a Kansas aircraft manufacturer. The underlying wrongful death action, alleging product defect and negligence claims, resulted from an airplane crash in New Zealand that killed six people. Their survivors are all foreign nationals. In resolving the jurisdictional issue before us, we confront competing extremes of allowed forum selection and presentations that are not straightforward. 1
Standard of Review
On interlocutory appeal, we…
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