HAMMETT v. SEASTRUNK

Nos. 9873, 9874.

365 F.2d 232 (1966)

James Dean HAMMETT, Appellant, v. Charles Ernest SEASTRUNK, James Elbert Miller and Huckabee Transport Company, Appellees. James Dean HAMMETT, James Elbert Miller and Huckabee Transport Company, Appellees, v. Charles Ernest SEASTRUNK, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 4, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Roberts, III, Gastonia, N. C. (Frank Patton Cooke, Gastonia, N. C. on the brief) for James D. Hammett, appellant in No. 9873 and appellee in No. 9874.

William T. Covington, Jr., Charlotte, N. C. (J. Donnell Lassiter, Charlotte, N. C., on the brief) for James Elbert Miller and Huckabee Transport Company, appellees in Nos. 9873 and 9874, and Wade W. Mitchem, Gastonia, N. C. (Robert H. Forbes, Gastonia, N. C., on the brief) for Charles Ernest Seastrunk, appellee in No. 9873 and appellant in No. 9874.

Before BOREMAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, and LEWIS, District Judge.


BOREMAN, Circuit Judge.

These appeals arise from a series of bizarre and unfortunate automobile accidents in which nine vehicles, including those of the parties hereto, were involved in collisions in an unusually dense bank of fog. James Dean Hammett, the driver of one of the automobiles, brought suit to recover damages for his personal injuries and property loss1 in the Superior Court of Gaston County, North Carolina, against Charles...

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