Majesty v. Comet-Mercury-Ford Co. of Lorain

ROBERT M. FLEMING, Judge Pro Tem.

This suit was filed on August 20, 1971, alleging a tort against “Mercury-Ford-Comet Company of Lorain, Michigan” which occurred on August 22, 1970. Service of process was made upon the Secretary of State on August 23, 1971. Ultimately a copy of a petition was sent to a plant operated by the Ford Motor Company in Kansas City, Missouri, and in response to this the Ford Motor Company, a foreign corporation authorized to and doing business in Louisiana, who had appointed the C. T. Corporation System as its registered agent for service of process, filed a motion to…