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AMERICAN VALVE MFG. CO. v. VIR

Nos. 28942-CA, 28943-CA.

685 So.2d 1156 (1996)

AMERICAN VALVE MANUFACTURING COMPANY and Federal Insurance Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. VALVO INDUSTRIA ING RIZZIO, aka Vir S.p.A. and L'Abeille Assicurazioni, Defendants-Appellees. Dennis W. MOORE, et al Plaintiffs-Appellants v. CRYSTAL OIL COMPANY, et al Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied March 7, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mayer, Smith & Roberts by Deborah Shea Baukman and Steven E. Soileau, and James E. Franklin, Jr., Shreveport, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Barlow & Hardtner by Joseph L. Shea, Jr. and Jonathan D. Baughman, Shreveport, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MARVIN, NORRIS and GASKINS, JJ.

NORRIS, Judge.

American Valve Manufacturing Co. and its insurer, Federal Insurance Co. (hereinafter "AV"), appeal a judgment sustaining the declinatory exception of lack of personal jurisdiction filed by Valvo Industria Ing Rizzio, a/k/a VIR SpA and its insurer, L'Abeille Assicurazioni ("VIR"), and dismissing VIR from two lawsuits.1 For the reasons expressed, we reverse and remand.

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