Legal Opinion
Cornelison v. Chaney
California Supreme Court
Decided February 10, 1976No. L.A. 30416PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*146Opinion
MOSK, J.
The issue presented by this appeal is whether California, consistent with the due process clause of the United States Constitution, may assert jurisdiction over a nonresident individual whose essentially interstate business has a relationship to this state, but whose allegedly tortious acts occurred outside the state.
Plaintiff is a California resident whose husband was killed in a highway collision with defendant’s truck in Nevada, 27 miles south of Las Vegas, not far from the California border. Plaintiff was a witness to the accident. She filed a complaint in California…
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