GADDY v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO.

Nos. 17425, 17426.

386 F.2d 772 (1967)

Hazel GADDY, Administratrix of the Estate of James Brown Gaddy, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD CO., Defendant-Appellant, and Dorothy M. Gaddy, Intervenor-Appellee (two cases).

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

November 30, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Wayne Bridges, Covington, Ky., for Hazel Gaddy, Bridges & Nelson, Covington, Ky., Lohren F. Martin, Jr., of Sutton, Martin & Forcht, Corbin, Ky., on brief.

Charles S. Adams, Covington, Ky., for Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co., M. D. Jones, J. M. Terry, Louisville, Ky., on brief.

James N. Stein, Covington, Ky., for Dorothy M. Gaddy, Ralph P. Rich, Covington, Ky., on brief.

Before PHILLIPS, CELEBREZZE and McCREE, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in an FELA case, arising out of the death of James B. Gaddy, a railroad employee. Two women, Mrs. Dorothy Marie Husted Gaddy and Mrs. Hazel Gaddy, claim to be his widow. It is undisputed that Dorothy was the first of the two to be married to Gaddy and that they were married in 1954 in a formal ceremony. In 1959 Dorothy filed a divorce action in Las Vegas,...

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