FAULKNER v. S.A. EMPRESA DE VIACO AIREA RIO GRAND.

No. 68-471.

222 So.2d 805 (1969)

Nancy Mona FAULKNER and Leonard John Metcalfe, As Administrators of the Estate of Edward Bazil Faulkner, Deceased, Nancy Mona Faulkner, Individually and As Parent, Next Friend and Guardian of Frank Edward Faulkner, Joan Helen Faulkner and John Charles Faulkner, Infants; and Livia Varkonyi, Individually and As Parent, Next Friend and Guardian of Laszlo Varkonyi and Judith Varkonyi, Infants, Appellants, v. S.A. EMPRESA de VIACO AIREA RIO GRANDENSE (VARIG), and the Boeing Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

May 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph & Anderson, Miami, for appellants.

Batchelor, Brodnax, Guthrie & Kindred, Knight, Underwood, Peters, Hoeveler & Pickle, Miami, Theodore E. Wolcott, New York City, for appellees.

Before PEARSON, BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The appellants, as plaintiffs in the trial court, seek review of an order of dismissal of their action sounding in tort upon the doctrine of forum non conveniens.1 We affirm.

The accident out of which the cause of action arose occurred in Lima, Peru. The plaintiffs-decedents were not residents of the United States; they had no contact with this country; they did not purchase their tickets here; their journeys were solely...

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