DEDMON v. FALLS PRODUCTS INCORPORATED

No. 19039.

299 F.2d 173 (1962)

George DEDMON, Appellant, v. FALLS PRODUCTS INCORPORATED et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry O. Lorant, Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.

Marvin Williams, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

Before RIVES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges, and JOHNSON, District Judge.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The principal question this case presents is whether corporate defendants amenable to service of process are absent from the state within the meaning of an Alabama statute tolling the statute of limitations during the absence of a defendant.

George Dedmon was standing in his son's yard in Bessemer, Alabama, June 26, 1958, when he was struck by the broken blade of a rotary power lawn mower. The metal hurtled sixty feet through the air...

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