DORES v. ANDERSON

No. 18443.

295 F.2d 496 (1961)

Joseph DORES, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Victoria Dores, Deceased, Appellant, v. T. V. ANDERSON and Jesse L. Neal, etc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1961.

Motion for Leave to File Extraordinary Petition for Rehearing Denied December 13, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Hodges, Lake City, Fla., for appellant.

John E. Mathews, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla., Mathews, Osborne & Ehrlich, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, and JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

We have carefully considered the principal contention of the appellant, i. e., that the trial court erred in not giving a charge to the jury on the doctrine of last clear chance. We conclude that there was no evidence from which the jury could infer that the defendant driver had failed to do all that was reasonably required of him after he had discovered the plaintiff's peril. See Cavitt v. Ferris, 5 Cir., 269 F.2d 440...

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