Legal Opinion
Scott Martel v. George F. Stafford, Administrator, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 25, 1993No. 92-2286PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal could do double duty as a law school examination question. It follows a district court’s dismissal of the third action brought by plaintiff-appellant Scott Martel in what has been a consistently unsuccessful effort to stay in court long enough to recover damages for personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Because the district court lacked personal jurisdiction over the sole defendant, a foreign executor sued as such, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Leaving to one side the seepage from the geographical morass in which this case is mired, the prefatory…
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