CAIN v. BEECHER

No. 8641.

310 F.2d 241 (1962)

Mrs. Ruth Brockman CAIN, Executrix of the Estate of William Pinckney Cain, Deceased, Appellee, v. John H. BEECHER, and Little John Beecher & His Orchestra, Inc., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Cabaniss, Charleston, S. C. (Hope & Cabaniss, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellants.

John W. Thomas, Columbia, S. C., and S. Henry Edmunds, Charleston, S. C. (Roberts, Jennings, Thomas & Lumpkin, Columbia, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOPER and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and HUTCHESON, District Judge.


STERLING HUTCHESON, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the executrix of the estate of William Pinckney Cain against John H. Beecher, as an individual, and Little John Beecher and his Orchestra, Inc., a corporation. Jurisdiction of this Court is based upon The Diversity Statute. The plaintiff alleges that her testator lost his life as the result of negligence on the part of the defendants. There was a verdict for the plaintiff and the defendants appealed...

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