McAlpin v. James McKoane Enterprises, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

READY, Chief Judge.

This is another in a long line of cases in which this court has been required to interpret various aspects of the Mississippi Long Arm Statute. 1 The precise issue raised today is whether the statute can be utilized in an action for the wrongful death of a nonresident decedent, where the plaintiff is a Mississippi resident suing as administrator of the decedent’s estate pursuant to letters of administration granted by a Mississippi chancery court.

From the pleadings, affidavits, and briefs of counsel now before us, it appears that on September 11, 1973,…