FOWLER v. DODSON

No. 22767.

159 F.Supp. 101 (1958)

Kenneth R. FOWLER and Elizabeth K. Fowler, his wife, Plaintiffs, v. Truman M. DODSON, IV, and Truman M. Dodson, V, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 11, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Feldman, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Thomas Raeburn White, Jr., Edward Greeh, White, Williams & Scott, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.


KRAFT, District Judge.

This case is before the court on defendants' motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction. The action arises from an automobile collision on July 22, 1956 in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. All plaintiffs and defendants are citizens of Pennsylvania. Since diversity of citizenship is lacking, plaintiffs rely for jurisdiction upon the Act of August 19, 1937, § 1, as amended,1 which, with its preamble, in pertinent...

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