BOWYER & JOHNSON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. WHITE

No. 16882.

255 F.2d 482 (1958)

BOWYER & JOHNSON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, and Cordova Sand & Gravel Company, Appellants, v. Joe WHITE et al., Trustees of Pleasant Grove C. M. E. Church in DeSoto County, Mississippi, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 13, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Cage Brewer, Jr., William O. Luckett, Semmes Luckett, Brewer & Brewer, and Roberson, Luckett & Roberson, Clarksdale, Miss., Leo Bearman, Memphis, Tenn., Robert M. Burton, Memphis, Tenn., of counsel, for appellants.

Joel P. Walker, Jr., and Chatham & Walker, Hernando, Miss., for appellees.

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


JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the Trustees of the Pleasant Grove Colored Methodist Episcopal Church entered by the Court after a non-jury trial against both a highway Contractor1 and its Subcontractor2 for destruction of this rural Mississippi Church by fire. Both Contractor and Subcontractor appeal from the joint judgment...

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