VANDENBARK v. OWENS-ILLINOIS CO.

No. 141.

311 U.S. 538 (1941)

VANDENBARK v. OWENS-ILLINOIS GLASS CO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 6, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Paul D. Smith and Thomas H. Sutherland for petitioner.

Mr. Lawrence Earl Broh-Kahn, with whom Mr. Lloyd T. Williams was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This certiorari brings before us for review the determination of the Circuit Court of Appeals that cases at law sounding in tort, brought in the federal courts on the ground of diversity of citizenship, are ruled by the state law as declared by the state's highest court when the judgment of the trial court is entered and not by the state law as so declared at the time of entry of the appellate court's order of affirmance...

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