Knoepke v. Southwestern Railway Co.

The plaintiffs in four death and survivorship actions, have filed notices of appeal from an order of the Judith Basin County District Court which dismissed all of the nonresident defendants for lack of personal jurisdiction. We dismissed the appeal because one defendant remains in the lawsuit and the order is therefore not final.

On September 29, 1973, a plane piloted by Arthur J. Myllymaki, Jr., crashed in the hills surrounding Stanford, Montana. The plane in question was owned by Charles R. Newman. Charles had loaned it to his brother, Dudley T. Newman, for a training flight from Arizona to…