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HOUSE v. HENDLEY & WHITTEMORE CO.

No. 2-58416.

251 N.W.2d 490 (1977)

Gregg Allen HOUSE, Appellant, v. HENDLEY & WHITTEMORE COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 16, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams, Hart, Lavorato & Kirtley by Louis A. Lavorato, George A. LaMarca and David S. Wiggins, Des Moines, for appellant.

Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie & Smith, Des Moines, for appellees.

Heard by MOORE, C. J., and MASON, RAWLINGS, LeGRAND and UHLENHOPP, JJ.

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves a question of the retrospectivity of our long-arm statute, § 617.3, Code 1975. We will speak of Hendley & Whittemore Company and Hendley-Beloit Corporation collectively as Hendley; Hendley-Beloit is the successor to Hendley & Whittemore and assumed its liabilities. Hendley is a foreign corporation without an appointed agent to receive service of process in Iowa.

Hendley manufactured a machine outside of...

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