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RUTLAND v. SIKES

No. 8686.

311 F.2d 538 (1962)

Thomas C. RUTLAND, as Administrator of the Estate of Glenn Rubin Rutland, deceased, Appellee, v. W. R. SIKES, Sr., and W. R. Sikes, Jr., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Duncan, West Columbia, S. C., and J. Reese Daniel, Columbia, S. C., for appellants.

Marshall B. Williams, Orangeburg, S. C. (Lofton M. Fanning and W. T. Klapman, Orangeburg, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and LEWIS, District Judge.

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The defendants in this action for wrongful death appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff. They question the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the finding that they are responsible as masters for the acts of the driver of their truck and the further finding that the negligence of the driver of their truck was the proximate cause of the death of the plaintiff's decedent.

We think the evidence supports the findings of the District...

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