Larry Ray Freeman and Brenda Freeman v. Kohl & Vick MacHine Works, Inc., Third-Party v. Keebler Company, Third-Party

The issue in this case is whether this Court has jurisdiction to review a district court’s conflict of laws determination, embodied in an order denying a motion for summary judgment, which has the effect of denying appellant’s asserted immunity from suit.

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Plaintiff Larry Freeman, a resident of Georgia, sued Kohl & Vick Machine Works, Inc., an Illinois corporation, in the federal district court for the Northern District of Illinois. Plaintiff sued for injuries sustained at the place of business of his employer in Macon, Georgia, while operating a machine which plaintiff alleges the defendant…