FLOTA MERCANTE GRAN v. STENA SHIPPING

No. 74-60.

294 So.2d 98 (1974)

FLOTA MERCANTE GRAN CENTRO-AMERICANA, a Guatemalan Corporation, Appellant, v. STENA SHIPPING AB, a Swedish Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 20, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smathers & Thompson and G. Morton Good, Miami, Hill, Betts & Nash, New York City, for appellant.

Heiman & Crary, Miami, for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, C.J., and PEARSON and CARROLL, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal filed under Rule 4.2 FAR, 32 F.S.A. from an interlocutory order at law relating to venue, by which the court denied a motion of the defendant for dismissal on the doctrine of forum non conveniens. We find error and reverse, on authority of Hagen v. Viney, 124 Fla. 747, 169 So. 391, and Southern Railway Company v. McCubbins, Fla.App. 1967, 196 So.2d 512.

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