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AYCOCK v. LOUISIANA AIRCRAFT, INC.

No. 78-2754.

617 F.2d 432 (1980)

C. W. AYCOCK, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of James Henry Aycock, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Alious S. Ashley et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors-Appellants, and Insurance Company of North America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. LOUISIANA AIRCRAFT, INC., Defendant-Appellee, and Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, Garnishee-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 19, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Pyle, Walker W. Jones, III, Jackson, Miss., for Ashley et al.

Gray, Montague & Jackson, Frank D. Montague, Jr., Hattiesburg, Miss., for C. W. Aycock.

George E. Gillespie, Jr., Francis T. Zachary, Hattiesburg, Miss., W. Luther Wilson, Baton Rouge, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before VANCE and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and THOMAS, District Judge.

VANCE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents a single issue: Whether the district court correctly decided that, under Mississippi's long arm statute, section 13-3-57 of the Mississippi Code Annotated (1972), it lacked in personam jurisdiction over Louisiana Aircraft, Inc. We reverse.

On January 19, 1975, a Piper Navajo owned by Faulkner Concrete Products Company of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, crashed in Mobile County, Alabama. The original plaintiffs in this action...

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