Fellows v. Colburn

The defendants, Robin Tennant Colburn and Ronald and Richard Tennant, appeal an order of the Superior Court (Sullivan, J.) denying their motion to dismiss this action by the plaintiffs, Richard and Cheryl Fellows and Benjamin Bellerose, for negligence and violation of federal law for lack of personal jurisdiction. We reverse.

The trial court’s order recites, or the record supports, the following facts. On December 14, 1981, the defendants’ parents, Marvin and Thelma Tennant, and their sister, Barbara Tennant, purchased a residential property at 588 North State Street in Concord (the Concord…