JOHNSON v. RAC CORPORATION

No. 73-1958.

491 F.2d 510 (1974)

Harvey B. JOHNSON, Appellant, v. RAC CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 5, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. McKenna, Washington, D. C. (Lawrence F. Rodowsky, Baltimore, Md., Rowley & Scott, Washington, D. C., Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

Edmund P. Dandridge, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Venable, Beatjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., Bleakley, Platt, Schmidt & Fritz, New York City, on brief), for appellee.

Before BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

This is a products liability action to recover for personal injuries sustained in connection with a helicopter crash in the State of Virginia on December 31, 1970. Federal jurisdiction was based on diversity. The defendant RAC, alleged to be a Delaware corporation with its principal offices in New York, and one of the several defendants in the action, moved to dismiss on a number of grounds. Among the grounds of the motion was the claim...

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