Tecumseh Products Co. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Marshall, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether the State Court of Glynn County, Georgia, has personal jurisdiction over Tecumseh Products Company, a registered foreign corporation which was made a third-party defendant via complaint by the original defen*103dant.

In April, 1971, Abercrombie was injured at his home in Jekyll Island, Georgia, Glynn County, while operating a riding lawn mower which he had purchased from Sears. In October, 1971, he filed a suit for damages in Glynn County naming Sears as defendant. Over two years passed when, in May, 1974, Sears filed a third-party…