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LITTLE v. WATKINS MOTOR LINES

Nos. 15785-15789.

256 F.2d 145 (1958)

Lloyd LITTLE, Appellant, v. WATKINS MOTOR LINES, Inc., Dewrall Ellis, James Hayes, Appellees. Dorothy LITTLE, Appellant, v. WATKINS MOTOR LINES, Inc., Dewrall Ellis, James Hayes, Appellees. Catherine I. MYERLY as Executrix of the Estate of Lowell R. Myerly, Deceased, Appellant, v. WATKINS MOTOR LINES, Inc., Dewrall Ellis, James Hayes, Appellees. Catherine I. MYERLY, Appellant, v. WATKINS MOTOR LINES, Inc., Dewrall Ellis, James Hayes, Appellees. Lloyd LITTLE as Administrator of the Estate of Connie Sue Little, Deceased, Appellant, v. WATKINS MOTOR LINES, Inc., Dewrall Ellis, James Hayes, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

June 12, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. M. Beatty, Sigourney, Iowa (H. S. Life, Oskaloosa, Iowa, was with him on the brief), for appellants.

Arthur A. McGiverin and W. T. Barnes, Ottumwa, Iowa, for appellees.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.

VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from final judgments sustaining defendants' motion for directed verdicts and dismissing five consolidated suits for damages for deaths and injuries resulting from an automobile accident. These actions, originally commenced in the state court, were, upon defendants' motion, properly transferred to the federal court upon the basis of diversity of citizenship and jurisdictional amount. All actions involve common questions...

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