FORD MOTOR COMPANY v. McDAVID

No. 7624.

259 F.2d 261 (1958)

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Appellant, v. J. W. McDAVID, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 29, 1958.

Certiorari Denied December 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Fletcher Padget, Jr., and N. A. Turner, Columbia, S. C., for appellant.

Augustus T. Graydon, Columbia, S. C., and John C. West, Camden, S. C. (C. T. Graydon, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and PAUL, District Judge.


Certiorari Denied December 8, 1958. See 79 S.Ct. 234.

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff was a passenger in an automobile, owned and driven by his wife, when there was a blowout of the right front tire. Mrs. McDavid lost control of the automobile, which ran into a ditch, and the plaintiff was thrown to the floor. He sought compensation for his personal injury from the manufacturer of the automobile upon the theory that the blowout was caused by excessive...

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