MATANUSKA VALLEY LINES v. NEAL

Nos. 15252-15254.

255 F.2d 632 (1957)

MATANUSKA VALLEY LINES, Inc., a corporation, and General Casualty Company of America, a corporation, Lewis E. Simpson, Louis Odsather, J. A. Columbus, H. N. Baker, Russell Swank and Norman G. Lange, Appellants, v. Dorothy NEAL and Nathaniel Neal, Jr., Appellees. MATANUSKA VALLEY LINES, Inc., a corporation, and General Casualty Company of America, a corporation, Appellants, v. Blanche THOMAS, Appellee. MATANUSKA VALLEY LINES, Inc., a corporation, and General Casualty Company of America, a corporation, Appellants, v. Wordie FRAZIER and Prince Frazier, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

December 28, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin, Shorts & Bever, Frank J. Conway, Seattle, Wash., Hellenthal, Hellenthal & Cottis and Davis, Renfrew & Hughes and David H. Thorsness, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellants Matanuska Valley Lines and Gen. Cas. Co. of America.

Davis, Renfrew & Hughes, David H. Thorsness, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellants, Simpson, Odsather, Columbus, Baker, Swand and Lange.

Wendell P. Kay, Herald E. Stringer, John R. Connolly, Anchorage, Alaska, for appellees.

Before ORR, LEMMON and FEE, Circuit Judges.


JAMES ALGER FEE, Circuit Judge.

This litigation arose from a collision between a bus and a truck on a road near Anchorage, Alaska, on November 20, 1951. Three separate actions were brought by women passengers, who had paid fares required by the bus, and the husbands of two of them, against Lois Williams, the owner and driver of the truck, and Matanuska Valley Lines, Inc., owner of the bus, each alleging personal injuries as a result of negligence. Answers were filed...

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