Autry v. Seaboard Coast Line R. R.

ROGER J. WAYBRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Final order dismissing complaint and terminating action: The plaintiff, an employee of the defendant’s predecessor corporation, lives in South Carolina. He sues the defendant in this F.E.L.A. action, claiming to have been injured in South Carolina and in North Carolina. Any witnesses with respect to liability live in South Carolina or North Carolina, and the plaintiff’s treating physicians live in those states. The voluminous records that must be sifted and used are all outside Florida.

The only reason apparent to this court why this action is brought in a…