ATLANTIC GREYHOUND CORPORATION v. EDDINS

No. 5951.

177 F.2d 954 (1949)

ATLANTIC GREYHOUND CORPORATION v. EDDINS.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben C. Thornton, Greenville, S. C., and Nat A. Turner, Columbia, S. C. (James L. Love and E. M. Blythe, Greenville, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

A. C. Mann and W. H. Arnold, Greenville, S. C. (J. R. Mann, Greenville, S. C., and W. C. Mann, Pickens, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER and SOPER, Circuit Judges, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.


BARKSDALE, District Judge.

This action, which was removed from a state court on the ground of diversity of citizenship, was instituted by Bethel M. Eddins, widow and administratrix of William Amos Eddins, against Atlantic Greyhound Corporation, to recover damages, actual and punitive, for the wrongful death of her husband under the South Carolina Death by Wrongful Act statute, 1 S.C. Code, Sec. 411 et seq. Upon the trial by the court with a jury, the court struck...

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