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EVANS v. CHEATWOOD

No. 20900.

329 F.2d 583 (1964)

Annie Plummer EVANS, Appellant, v. James Walter CHEATWOOD and Anchor Petroleum Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 26, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack B. Weldy, Francis Zachary, Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Zachary & Weldy, Hattiesburg, Miss., for appellant.

Moran Pope, Jr., Hattiesburg, Miss., Rae Bryant, Gulfport, Miss., Russell Talbott, Houston, Tex., Simrall, Aultman & Pope, Hattiesburg, Miss., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENBERRY, District Judge.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge:

Declaration was filed by attorney for the plaintiff, Annie Plummer Evans, in the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, on Feb. 19, 1963, against the defendants, jointly and severally, for damages both actual and punitive in the sum of $40,000.00, for the wrongful death of Lifus Branford, deceased, brother of the plaintiff.

The suit was removed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Defendants...

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