PETROLEUM CARRIER CORPORATION v. CARTER

No. 15775.

233 F.2d 402 (1956)

PETROLEUM CARRIER CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Hattie CARTER and Bessie Threatt, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 18, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Kennedy, Jr., Savannah, Ga., Kennedy & Sognier, Savannah, Ga., for appellant.

James P. Mozingo, III, Darlington, S. C., Sidney S. Tison, Jr., Hartsville, S. C., H. Alva Brumfield, Baton Rouge, La., Tison & Tison, Hartsville, S. C., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

The suits from the judgments in which this appeal comes were filed in the Superior Court of Long County, Georgia, and thence removed to the United States District Court. While the cases were tried together, separate judgments were entered on separate verdicts of juries awarding to the plaintiff in each case damages for the death of her son in an automobile collision, resulting from the negligence of defendant-appellant.

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