LAWSON v. U-HAUL COMPANY

No. 72-1090.

462 F.2d 1337 (1972)

Helen D. LAWSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. U-HAUL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

June 30, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney W. Gilreath, Knoxville, Tenn., John H. Cary, Haynes, Gilreath & Cary, Knoxville, Tenn., on brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

L. Anderson Galyon III, Louis C. Woolf, Jack H. Doughty, Lewis S. Howard, Knoxville, Tenn., Hodges, Doughty & Carson, Knoxville, Tenn., Louis C. Woolf, Knoxville, Tenn., on brief; McCampbell, Young, Bartlett & Woolf, Knoxville, Tenn., of counsel, for defendants-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, WEICK, Circuit Judge, and THOMAS, District Judge.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

This case grows out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on Interstate Highway 75 near Knoxville, Tennessee. District Judge Robert L. Taylor, 336 F.Supp. 186, directed a verdict against Mrs. Helen D. Lawson, the plaintiff, who appeals. Jurisdiction is based upon diversity of citizenship. Tennessee law controls.

Mrs. Lawson rented a U-Haul truck in Pontiac, Michigan, for the purpose of transporting...

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