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STATES MARINE LINES v. DOMINGO

269 A.2d 223 (1970)

STATES MARINE LINES, a Delaware corporation, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Teresa B. DOMINGO, individually and as the widow of and on behalf of the next of kin of Eugenio Domingo, deceased, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Reargument Denied July 31, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh L. Corroon, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, and James B. Magnor and Marshall M. Pearlman, of Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, for defendant below, appellant.

Harold Shaffer, of Booker, Leshem, Green, Shaffer & Berl, Wilmington, and Jacob Rassner and Alfred M. Shafter, New York City, for plaintiff below, appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.

HERRMANN, Justice:

This appeal requires us to determine whether the Superior Court abused its discretion in declining to dismiss a Delaware action on the ground of forum non conveniens, and in declining to relegate the plaintiff to the institution of a new action in the Republic of the Philippines.

The plaintiff is a Philippine citizen and resident who brought this...

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