BOOTHE v. HOLMES

No. 24949.

399 F.2d 495 (1968)

Nobie Cooper BOOTHE et al., Appellants, v. James O. HOLMES et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 19, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Rogers, Jr., Vicksburg, Miss., Daniel R. Atkinson, E. L. Richardson, Baton Rouge, La., for appellants.

Lee Davis Thames, Vicksburg, Miss., Jerome Steen, W. Thad Cochran, Jackson, Miss., for appellees.

Before WISDOM and COLEMAN, Circuit Judges, and MITCHELL, District Judge.


COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is a diversity case in which the plaintiffs (appellants here) sued James O. Holmes and his employer, the Ashland Pipeline Company, for personal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 61, at a point about thirteen miles north of Woodville, Mississippi, January 30, 1965. The jury verdict was for the defendants. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

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At the time and place in question, the appellant...

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