COOK v. G. D. SEARLE & CO., INC.

Civ. No. 78-14-2.

475 F.Supp. 1166 (1979)

Jane Heslinga COOK and Nelson Cook, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. G. D. SEARLE & CO., INC., a corporation, and Dr. Brian Donaldson and Dr. David E. Bates, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Iowa, Central Division.

As Amended September 14, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Spayde, Spayde & Rielly, Garold F. Heslinga, Heslinga & Heslinga, Oskaloosa, Iowa, for plaintiffs.

Charles E. Miller, Lane & Waterman, Davenport, Iowa, for defendant G. D. Searle & Co.

H. Richard Smith, Paul F. Ahlers, and James E. Cooney, Ahlers, Cooney, Dorweiler, Haynie & Smith, Des Moines, Iowa, for defendants Donaldson & Bates.


RULING ON MOTIONS TO DISMISS

VIETOR, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, wife and husband, bring this tort action against the manufacturer of a contraceptive device and two doctors who prescribed use of the device by plaintiff wife, alleging that plaintiff wife was injured by use of the device.

The Court now has before it for ruling the motions to dismiss of the doctors, defendants Donaldson and Bates, for lack of personal jurisdiction.

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