MATTHIESEN v. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.

No. 18518.

286 F.2d 775 (1961)

Anna H. MATTHIESEN, Appellant, v. NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald V. Organ, H. Alva Brumfield, Gene S. Palmisano, New Orleans, La., for appellant.

St. Clair Adams, Jr., Adams & Reese, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, JONES, Circuit Judge, and MIZE, District Judge.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents the unusual question whether the trial court erred in dismissing a personal injury damage suit for want of jurisdictional amount to sustain federal jurisdiction.

The plaintiff, a seventy-eight year old woman, while walking on the sidewalk in New Orleans alongside a private school playground, was struck by a football, causing her to lose her balance and fall. As a result of the fall she received a fracture of the upper...

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