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ELLIS v. GREAT SOUTHWESTERN CORP.

No. 80-1920 Summary Calendar.

646 F.2d 1099 (1981)

Jeff ELLIS, Administrator of the Estate of Ida B. Ellis, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GREAT SOUTHWESTERN CORPORATION, Six Flags, Inc. and Six Flags Over Texas, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

Rehearings Denied July 24, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Young, Patton & Folsom, Nicholas H. Patton, Texarkana, Ark., for plaintiff-appellant.

Fillmore & Camp, Patrick H. O'Neill, Fort Worth, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, RUBIN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity tort suit, the court below held that the plaintiff's claim was barred by the applicable statute of limitations. Although the ultimate application of the appropriate statute of limitations is a comparatively simple business, the intermediate inquiry of which state's statute of limitations should be applied leads us on a merry chase through the murky area in which the Erie doctrine and the federal change of venue

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