BOWYER & JOHNSON, INC. v. SANDERS

No. 17677.

271 F.2d 275 (1959)

BOWYER & JOHNSON, INC., Appellant, v. R. E. SANDERS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

October 30, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester L. Sumners, Oxford, Miss., Leslie Darden, New Albany, Miss., Floyd W. Cunningham, Booneville, Miss., Sumners & Hickman, Oxford, Miss., Smallwood, Darden & Sumners, New Albany, Miss., for appellant.

J. A. Cunningham, Cunningham & Cunningham, Booneville, Miss., for appellee.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


RIVES, Chief Judge.

This is an action for personal injuries and property damage against a highway construction contractor. The car in which the plaintiff was riding left the highway at a point where construction was in progress and struck a nearby tree, practically demolishing the automobile and turning the twenty-seven year old plaintiff into a "vegetable man." The case was tried to the court without a jury. Upon full findings of fact and conclusions of law, the...

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