Legal Opinion
Aycock v. Louisiana Aircraft, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 19, 1980No. 78-2754PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents a single issue: Whether the district court correctly decided that, under Mississippi’s long arm statute, section 13-3-57 of the Mississippi Code Annotated (1972), it lacked in personam jurisdiction over Louisiana Aircraft, Inc. We reverse.
On January 19, 1975, a Piper Navajo owned by Faulkner Concrete Products Company of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, crashed in Mobile County, Alabama. The original plaintiffs in this action were the heirs of John Ashley and John Henry Aycock who died in that crash. They initiated this wrongful death action, section 11-7-13…
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