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DeFOURNEAUX v. STURM, RUGER & CO., INC.

Civ. No. B 78-437.

503 F.Supp. 2 (1980)

Nina DeFOURNEAUX, Administratrix of the Estate of Jerome F. DeFourneaux, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STURM, RUGER & CO., INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

April 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Mitchell Morse, Jacobs, Jacobs, & Grudberg, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Stephen L. Sanetti, D. S. Maclay, Timothy G. Atwood, Marsh, Day & Calhoun, Bridgeport, Conn., for defendant-appellee.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

ELLEN B. BURNS, District Judge.

This case involves a Connecticut defendant's allegedly negligent manufacture of a gun which accidentally discharged in Missouri and killed plaintiff's decedent, a twenty-seven-year old Missouri resident. Defendant has moved to dismiss the entire case on the basis that Missouri's one-year statute of limitation on wrongful death has passed.

Missouri's wrongful death statute, Vernon's Annot.Mo.Stat...

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