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GENERAL TIRE & RUBBER v. HICKORY SPRINGS MFG.

Nos. 79-1156/T4-574 to 79-1165/T4-547I, 79-1169/T4-574M to 79-1181/T4-574Y, 79-1183/T4-574AA to 79-1185/T4-574CC and 79-1208/T4-574DD to 79-1219/T4-57400.

388 So.2d 264 (1980)

GENERAL TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. HICKORY SPRINGS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, a North Carolina Corporation and Textron, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, d/b/a Burkhart, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearings Denied September 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chris W. Altenbernd, Tampa, and O.H. Eaton, Jr., Altamonte Springs, for appellants John E. Polk, Individually, and as Sheriff of Seminole County, Florida, George Proudfoot, Seminole County, Florida, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, and Appalachian Ins. Co.

Joel H. Brown, Miami, for appellants Joseph R. Hart, Joseph L. Winters, Andrew J. Milan, Cynthia Smith, Daisy Ann Campbell, and Dorothy L. Gaines.

Howard R. Marsee, Orlando, for appellants Supreme Sales, Co., Inc. and Gulf Ins. Co.

Dennis J. Hightower and Karl O. Koepke, Orlando, for appellants Eddie Bond, Gary Winters, Timothy Bond Merrill, Jr., Joel McClean, Jr., Kenneth W. Hatcher, Arthur P. Hatcher, Paul Francis Gregor, Marion Lee Corey, Roy B. Clanton, et ux., Daniel Finnick Blauvelt, Franklin B. Owen, and James Lang Williams.

J. Scott Kirk and John W. Bussey, III, Orlando, for appellant General Tire and Rubber Co.

J. Michael Matthews, Altamonte Springs, for appellant Jones.

Robert B. Nadeau, Jr., Orlando, for appellee Hickory Springs Mfg. Co.

FRANK D. UPCHURCH, Jr., Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal pursuant to Rule 9.130(a)(3)(C)(i), Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure, from an order dismissing appellee, Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company, who was the defendant below, for lack of in personam jurisdiction. Thirty personal injury or wrongful death actions which arose from a fire in the Seminole County jail were filed in the Circuit Court for Seminole County naming appellee as defendant. All those...

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