COWAN v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY

No. 54983.

437 So.2d 46 (1983)

Mary Ezell COWAN, et al. v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin & Melvin, Leonard B. Melvin, Jr., Sarah L. Entrekin, Laurel, for appellants.

Watkins & Eager, H.H. Whitworth, Michael W. Ulmer, Jackson, for appellee.

Before BROOM, P.J., and DAN M. LEE and PRATHER, JJ.


BROOM, Presiding Justice, for the court:

Certified to us by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is this cause, asking us to decide the following question:

May a nonresident plaintiff utilize Mississippi's courts to sue a foreign corporation qualified to do business and actually doing business in Mississippi for an accident which occurred outside Mississippi and which had no relation to the foreign corporation's business activities in...

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