Cowan v. Ford Motor Co.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

Treating the Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc as a Petition for Panel Rehearing:

This diversity suit, filed in federal district court in the southern district of Mississippi, arises from a fatal accident which occurred in Texas. Neither the decedent nor any of the parties is a resident of Mississippi. Defendant, Ford Motor Company, however, is expressly authorized to do business in Mississippi, is actually doing business, and has designated a resident agent for service of process, on whom process was indeed served. The federal district court declined to assume…