Edwin A. Walker v. General Features Corporation

HILL, Circuit Judge.

This diversity action was commenced in the court below by plaintiff-appellant to recover damages from defendant-ap pellee for distributing an alleged libelous article, which was published in an Oklahoma newspaper. The appeal is from an order sustaining appellee’s objection to jurisdiction and motion to quash the service of summons and to dismiss the action on the ground that it was not “doing business” within the State of Oklahoma in such a manner as to make it amenable to service of process under the Oklahoma substituted service statute, 18 Okl.Stat.Ann. § 1.204a.

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