Case Name: Nancy Mona FAULKNER and Leonard John Metcalfe, as Administrators of the Estate of Edward Bazil Faulkner, Deceased, Nancy Mona Faulkner, individually and as parent, next friend and guardian of Frank Edward Faulkner, Joan Helen Faulkner and John Charles Faulkner, infants; and Livia Varkonyi, individually and as parent, next friend and guardian of Laszlo Varkonyi and Judith Varkonyi, infants, Appellants, v. S. A. EMPRESA de VIACO AIREA RIO GRANDENSE (VARIG), and the Boeing Company, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1969-05-20
Citations: 222 So. 2d 805
Docket Number: No. 68-471
Parties: Nancy Mona FAULKNER and Leonard John Metcalfe, as Administrators of the Estate of Edward Bazil Faulkner, Deceased, Nancy Mona Faulkner, individually and as parent, next friend and guardian of Frank Edward Faulkner, Joan Helen Faulkner and John Charles Faulkner, infants; and Livia Varkonyi, individually and as parent, next friend and guardian of Laszlo Varkonyi and Judith Varkonyi, infants, Appellants, v. S. A. EMPRESA de VIACO AIREA RIO GRANDENSE (VARIG), and the Boeing Company, Appellees.
Judges: Before PEARSON, BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 222
Pages: 805–806

Head Matter:
Nancy Mona FAULKNER and Leonard John Metcalfe, as Administrators of the Estate of Edward Bazil Faulkner, Deceased, Nancy Mona Faulkner, individually and as parent, next friend and guardian of Frank Edward Faulkner, Joan Helen Faulkner and John Charles Faulkner, infants; and Livia Varkonyi, individually and as parent, next friend and guardian of Laszlo Varkonyi and Judith Varkonyi, infants, Appellants, v. S. A. EMPRESA de VIACO AIREA RIO GRANDENSE (VARIG), and the Boeing Company, Appellees.
No. 68-471.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
May 20, 1969.
Ralph & Anderson, Miami, for appellants.
Batchelor, Brodnax, Guthrie & Kindred, Knight, Underwood, Peters, Hoeveler & Pickle, Miami, Theodore E. Wolcott, New York City, for appellees.
Before PEARSON, BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The appellants, as plaintiffs in the trial court, seek review of an order of dismissal of their action sounding in tort upon the doctrine of forum non conveniens. We affirm.
The accident out of which the cause of action arose occurred in Lima, Peru. The plaintiffs-decedents were not residents of the United States; they had no contact with this country; they did not purchase their tickets here; their journeys were solely outside of the United States, and we find no abuse of discretion in the trial judge dismissing the action upon, the doctrine of forum non conveniens. Hagen v. Viney, 124 Fla. 747, 169 So. 391; Southern Railway Company v. McCubbins, Fla.App.1967, 196 So.2d 512; Gulf Oil Corp. v. Gilbert, 330 U.S. 501, 67 S.Ct. 839, 91 L.Ed. 1055. Compare Hubbard v. Southern Railway Co., Cir.Ct. Dade Co.1959, 14 Fla.Supp. 10; Baker v. Atlantic Const. Line Railroad Co., Cir.Ct. Duval Co.1963, 21 Fla.Supp. 21.
Therefore, for the reasons above stated, the order here under review be and the same is hereby affirmed.
Affirmed.
. The appellants have a cause of action pending in the courts of the State of New York as a result of the accident in question. Varkonyi v. S. A. Empresa de Viaco Airea R. G., 22 N.Y.2d 333, 292 N.Y.S.2d 670, 239 N.E.2d 542.