COPELAND v. GREYHOUND CORPORATION

No. 21407.

337 F.2d 822 (1964)

Mildred R. COPELAND, Appellant, v. The GREYHOUND CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Calhoun, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

Edward W. Killorin, Robert R. Richardson, Atlanta, Ga., R. Wilson Smith, Jr., Gainesville, Ga., Gambrell, Harlan, Russell & Moye, E. Smythe Gambrell, Cicero Garner, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., Paul L. Hanes, of counsel, for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, BELL, Circuit Judge, and WHITEHURST, District Judge.


TUTTLE, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents the unusual case in which an appellant makes an extremely plausible and cogent argument that in the undisputed circumstances surrounding a bus-automobile collision, the trial court's finding that the driver of the bus was not negligent must be reversed because clearly erroneous, or because under the agreed circumstances negligence follows as a matter of law.

Facts which are not in dispute, and which were largely found...

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