BRYAN v. AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY

No. 18692.

381 F.2d 872 (1967)

James Q. BRYAN and Gratha Bryan, Appellants, v. The AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

September 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Whetstone, El Dorado, Ark., for appellants; William Powell Thompson, Little Rock, Ark., and James E. Stein, El Dorado, Ark., were with him on the brief.

John M. Shackleford, Jr., El Dorado, Ark., for appellee; Shackleford & Shackleford, El Dorado, Ark., were with him on the brief.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, BLACKMUN and GIBSON, Circuit Judges.


BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.

James Q. Bryan of El Dorado, Arkansas, was injured when a bus in which he was a passenger turned over on the morning of November 24, 1964. Mr. Bryan and his wife obtained a default judgment, based on negligence, against Herman Reid, the bus driver, in the amount of $75,000 for Bryan and $10,000 consortium loss for Mrs. Bryan, in the Circuit Court of Union County, Arkansas.

The Bryans then instituted this omnibus clause suit in Arkansas...

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