SWIFT & COMPANY v. PHELPS

Nos. 13868, 13869.

273 F.2d 551 (1960)

SWIFT & COMPANY, Appellant, v. Nancy PHELPS, by Next Friend and Guardian, Paul K. Watson, Appellee. SWIFT & COMPANY, Appellant, v. Paul K. WATSON, Administrator of the Estate of David Phelps, and Paul K. Watson, Administrator of the Estate of Doris Watson Phelps, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart F. Dye and Jackson C. Kramer, Kramer, Dye, McNabb & Greenwood, Knoxville, Tenn., for appellant.

Clyde W. Key, Knoxville, Tenn. (Key & Lee, Knoxville, Tenn., Sam Calhoun, Jr., Chatsworth, Ga., on the brief), for appellees.

Before SIMONS and WEICK, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAM E. MILLER, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

On the joint trial of these cases in the District Court, the jury returned verdicts for appellees and against appellant for damages resulting from an automobile-truck collision near Chatsworth, Georgia. The sole question presented here is whether the District Court committed reversible error in overruling appellant's motions for directed verdicts and motions for judgments notwithstanding the verdicts.

As a result of the collision from which the...

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