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SIMMONS v. KING

No. 72-2608 Summary Calendar.

478 F.2d 857 (1973)

Earl SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross Appellant, v. William R. KING and Ace Freight Lines, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Cross Appellees, Earl Dubose, d/b/a Dubose Trucking Company, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 12, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bob Ray, Sam Wilkins, W. Edward Ellington, Lawrence J. Franck, Jackson, Miss., for appellants.

Pat H. Scanlon, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.

W. Thad Cockran, Velia Ann Mayer, Jackson, Miss., for Dubose.

Before JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge, and DYER and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The easiest thing in this case is how it happened. It was, or so it was thought, a simple rear-end collision at night between two heavily loaded tractor-trailer rigs on Interstate 55 near Hammond, Louisiana. But almost immediately, as a sort of land-based Donnybrook,1 it got more and more complex. The upshot is that we must determine how well the Mississippi forum court...

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