PEABODY INTERN. CORP. v. WYLAIN, INC.

Nos. 84-850, 84-1470.

467 So.2d 481 (1985)

PEABODY INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, a Foreign Corporation, Appellant, v. WYLAIN, INC., Home Indemnity Company, Etc. and Eve R. Klassen, Etc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

April 18, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert R. Kanning, P.A., Jack W. Shaw, Jr., P.A. and Betsy C. Cox, of Mathews, Osborne, McNatt, Gobelman & Cobb, Jacksonville, for appellant.

W. David Rogers, Jr., of Rogers, Dowling and Bos, Orlando, for appellee Wylain, Inc.

No appearance for appellees Home Indemnity and Eve Klassen.


SHARP, Judge.

These consolidated appeals1 present the identical issue of whether the trial courts' orders denying Peabody International Corporation's (Peabody) motions to quash for lack of jurisdiction over the person were correct.2 We hold that the trial courts erred and accordingly reverse.

In both cases, representatives of persons killed in 1977 by a boiler explosion in Brevard County,

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