PLANT v. SIMMONS COMPANY

Civ. Nos. 17326, 17373, 17374.

321 F.Supp. 735 (1970)

Carl W. PLANT, Jr., to his own use and to the use of the United States of America v. SIMMONS COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, and Donald Francis Klosterman, and Kathryn Hutcheson Crawford. William Joseph OXENDINE, an infant, by his mother and next friend, Willie Mae Oxendine; and Willie Mae Oxendine, to her own use and to the use of the United States of America v. SIMMONS COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, and Donald Francis Klosterman, and Kathryn Hutcheson Crawford. Carolyn Ann CRAWFORD, surviving wife of Billy Wayne Crawford, deceased, individually and for the use of Tina Marie Crawford, surviving infant child of Billy Wayne Crawford, deceased, and Carolyn Ann Crawford and Eugene V. Chircus, co-administrators of the Estate of Billy Wayne Crawford, deceased, to their own use and to the use of the United States of America v. SIMMONS COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, and Donald Francis Klosterman and Kathryn Hutcheson Crawford.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

December 30, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Ginsberg and Eugene V. Chircus, Baltimore, Md., for plaintiffs.

John H. Mudd and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md., for defendants Simmons Co. and Donald Francis Klosterman.

Robert F. Freeze, Baltimore, Md., for defendant Kathryn Hutcheson Crawford.


THOMSEN, District Judge.

In these three cases — two for personal injuries and one for death — counsel for plaintiffs proposes to offer in evidence the testimony of Professor Carl F. Christ, of the Department of Economics of The Johns Hopkins University:

(a) as part of the proof of "the present value of the economic loss from the injury of a man under circumstances like Oxendine's"; (b) as part of the proof of "the present value of...

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