HENTLEY v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 15423.

224 F.2d 929 (1955)

Eugene HENTLEY, who sues by his next friend and Mother, Dardanella Hentley, Appellant, v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 18, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilbur G. Silberman, Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.

Peyton D. Bibb, Birmingham, Ala., Graham, Bibb, Wingo & Foster, Birmingham, Ala., of counsel for appellee.

Before RIVES and CAMERON, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from an adverse judgment entered upon a directed verdict for appellee, granted at the conclusion of appellant's testimony in his suit for damages for personal injuries sustained as a result of the alleged subsequent negligence of appellee's train crew. After the trial court had granted appellee's motion to dismiss both a simple negligence and a subsequent negligence count in the original complaint, the case was tried solely...

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