HUTSON v. FEHR BROS., INC.

No. 77-1818.

584 F.2d 833 (1978)

Woodrow HUTSON, Appellee, v. FEHR BROTHERS, INC., Appellee, Acciaierie Weissenfels, Appellant. John David EPPERSON, Appellee, v. FEHR BROTHERS, INC., Appellee, Acciaierie Weissenfels, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard O. Cunningham, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, D. C., argued, for appellant; Randolph J. May and F. Joseph Nealon, Washington, D. C., and W. H. Arnold, III of Arnold, Arnold, Lavender & Rochelle, Texarkana, Ark., on brief.

Nicholas H. Patton of Young, Patton & Folson, Texarkana, Ark., argued for appellees and on brief, for appellees Huston and Epperson.

Laser, Sharp, Haley, Young & Huckabay, Little Rock, Ark., on brief, for appellee Fehr Bros.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, and LAY, HEANEY, BRIGHT, ROSS, STEPHENSON, and HENLEY, Circuit Judges,


BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

This permissive interlocutory appeal stems from the attempted exercise of in personam jurisdiction over a foreign corporation, by substituted service, under the Arkansas long-arm statute. Ark.Stat.Ann. § 27-2502(C)(1)(d) (Supp.1975). The United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas denied defendant-appellant Acciaierie Weissenfels' motion to dismiss two suits seeking damages for alleged bodily injuries for lack...

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