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SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSP. CO. v. FOX

No. 89-CA-0381.

609 So.2d 357 (1992)

SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY v. Dudley Wayne FOX.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied December 31, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. Copeland, Michael W. Baxter, Copeland Cook Taylor & Bush, Jackson, for appellant.

William W. Ramsey, C.E. Sorey, II, Ramsey & Sorey, Vicksburg, Mitchell H. Tyner, Wm. Roberts Wilson, Jr., P.A., Jackson, for appellee.

En Banc.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

Today's appellant — a railroad whose tracks lie entirely west of the Mississippi — has been successfully sued on a Texas tort and appeals, asking that we hold there is nothing within the positive law of this state that renders the railroad amenable to suit here. On a fair reading of our non-resident amenability rules, the railroad is right.

We reverse...

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