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WARD v. HOBART MANUFACTURING COMPANY

No. 30809.

450 F.2d 1176 (1971)

Mrs. Frances Buckley WARD, Plaintiff, Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. The HOBART MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Defendant, Appellant, Cross-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 14, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry O. Terry, P. D. Greaves, Gulfport, Miss., William H. Wallace, Cleveland, Ohio, Greaves & Terry, Gulfport, Miss., James T. Crowley, Thompson, Hine & Flory, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant-appellant.

Leonard A. Blackwell, Jr., Estes & Blackwell, Gulfport, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and GEWIN and MORGAN, Circuit Judges.

GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

The resilient springboard of diversity jurisdiction once again catapults the federal courts into the midst of state tort law. In this nonjury, products liability case, Mrs. Frances Ward, appellee, cross-appellant (Mississippi resident), seeks to recover damages for severe injuries sustained to her right hand while cleaning a meat grinder manufactured by Hobart Manufacturing Company (Hobart), appellant, cross-appellee (citizen of Ohio). The district...

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