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COLT INDUSTRIES OPERATING CORP. v. COBB

No. 80-3669 Summary Calendar.

646 F.2d 200 (1981)

COLT INDUSTRIES OPERATING CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Clara Sue COBB and Hope Early Cobb, Testamentary Executrix of the Estate of Howell C. Cobb, Defendants-Appellees, v. J. P. SAUER & SOHN, GmbH, and The Landesbank Schleswig-Holstein Girozentrale, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

May 28, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen T. Victory, Frederick T. Kolb, New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellants.

Provosty, Sadler & deLaunay, Jr., Frederick B. Alexius, Richard B. Sadler, Jr., William H. deLaunay, Jr., Alexandria, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before CHARLES CLARK, REAVLEY and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

Clara Cobb was seriously injured and permanently disabled by the accidental discharge of a gun manufactured by J. P. Sauer & Sohn, a West German firearms manufacturer. Cobb, and the estate of her father, obtained jurisdiction over Sauer under the Louisiana Long Arm Statute, and upon jury trial, were awarded a judgment against Sauer in the amount of $785,000 in the state courts of Louisiana. This judgment was upheld on appeal....

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