JONES v. R.S. JONES AND ASSOCIATES, INC.

Record No. 920769.

431 S.E.2d 33 (1993)

Charlotte JONES, Administrator, etc. v. R.S. JONES AND ASSOCIATES, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 11, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Rasnic, Jonesville (Rasnic & Rasnic, on brief), for appellant.

William W. Eskridge, Abingdon (Richard E. Ladd, Jr., Penn, Stuart, Eskridge & Jones, on brief), for appellee R.S. Jones and Associates, Inc.

Elsey A. Harris, III, Norton (Mullins, Thomason & Harris, on brief), for appellee Piedmont Aviation, Inc.

Present: All the Justices.


CARRICO, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves a conflict of laws in the context of a wrongful death case. The conflict stems from the death in Florida of Ben A. Jones, Sr., a Virginia resident, who was killed when the plane he was piloting crashed on takeoff from Pompano Beach.1

The fatal crash occurred on October 12, 1987. On October 5, 1989, almost two years later, Charlotte Jones, administrator of Ben Jones' estate (the plaintiff...

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