BENNETT v. WOOD

No. 16270.

271 F.2d 349 (1959)

James C. BENNETT and George Isenhower, Appellants, v. Carmelita WOOD, for the Benefit of Herself and Her Minor Children, William Michael Wood, Gordon Allen Wood and Pamela Diane Wood, and Carmelita Wood, in Her Own Right, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

November 10, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alston Jennings, Little Rock, Ark. (John M. Harrison, Little Rock, Ark., was with him on the brief), for appellants.

Henry Woods, Little Rock, Ark. (McMath, Leatherman & Woods and James E. Youngdahl, Little Rock, Ark., were with him on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER, VOGEL, and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judges.


VAN OOSTERHOUT, Circuit Judge.

The issue involved in this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict and judgment thereon in favor of the plaintiff in an action for wrongful death resulting from the collision between a feed truck operated by plaintiff's decedent and a carnival truck1 operated by defendant Bennett. Diversity of citizenship jurisdiction is established. Timely...

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