Faulkner v. S. A. Empresa de Viaco Airea Rio Grandense (VARIG)

The appellants, as plaintiffs in the trial court, seek review of an order of dismissal of their action sounding in tort upon the doctrine of forum non conveniens.1 We affirm.

The accident out of which the cause of action arose occurred in Lima, Peru. The plaintiffs-decedents were not residents of the United States; they had no contact with this country; they did not purchase their tickets here; their journeys were solely outside of the United States, and we find no abuse of discretion in the trial judge dismissing the action upon, the doctrine of forum non conveniens. Hagen v. Viney, 124 Fla.…