HOBART v. SOHIO PETROLEUM COMPANY

No. GC 6337.

255 F.Supp. 972 (1966)

W. W. HOBART, Administrator of the Estate of Kenneth Ray McClure Hobart, Deceased; and H. L. Jones, Administrator of the Estate of Roy Lorenzo Jones, Deceased, Plaintiffs, v. SOHIO PETROLEUM COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. OIL TRANSPORT COMPANY, Incorporated, Third-Party Defendant, and GREENVILLE TOWING COMPANY, Third-Party Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, v. H. H. HOBART, Tina Mae Hobart, Guy Jones and Bessie Worthy Jones, Third-Party Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Mississippi, Greenville Division.

June 29, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Mansour, Greenville, Miss., for plaintiffs.

W. G. Beanland, Vicksburg, Miss., W. C. Keady, Greenville, Miss., Bracewell, Reynolds & Patterson, Houston, Tex., M. E. Ward, Vicksburg, Miss., Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

CLAYTON, Chief Judge.

This action was brought by the Mississippi administrators of the estates of two deceased minors, Kenneth Ray McClure Hobart and Roy Lorenzo Jones, to recover damages for their alleged wrongful deaths, pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated 1942 (Recompiled) § 1453. The defendant, Sohio Petroleum Company, is an Ohio corporation with its principal place of business in Ohio. The matter in controversy exceeds the...

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