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WILLIS v. WEIL PUMP COMPANY

No. 226, Docket No. 23433.

222 F.2d 261 (1955)

Gertrude D. WILLIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WEIL PUMP COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 31, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simone N. Gazan, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Sidney R. Rossiter, New York City (Lewis F. Glaser and Aaron Frank, New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before CLARK and FRANK, Circuit Judges, and GALSTON, District Judge.

FRANK, Circuit Judge.

1. In the district court, defendant moved for dismissal of the complaint because of improper venue. Defendant argued thus: Neither party is a resident of New York, and the New York courts will not entertain suits relative to a tort which occurred elsewhere; therefore the district court sitting in New York cannot entertain a suit where jurisdiction rests on diversity of citizenship. We think this contention untenable here for two reasons: (1)...

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