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HERRLEY v. VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC.

No. 85-4002.

957 F.2d 216 (1992)

Walter HERRLEY and Judith Sund Herrley, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC., and Volkswagenwerk, A.G., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 6, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Nobles, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edward A. Moss, Oxford, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before JOLLY, JONES, and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This case presents a question recurrent in the courts applying Mississippi law: Whether a non-resident plaintiff may use Mississippi's long-arm statute1 and foreign corporations suit statute2 to hale corporations, which are not registered but merely doing business in Mississippi, into its courts in an action otherwise unrelated to the state. In 1984 we answered that question "no" in Smith v....

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