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JONES v. STEINER

No. 72-3293.

481 F.2d 392 (1973)

Travis Wayne JONES et al., by Mrs. Jeanette Jones Griggs, next friend and guardian, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mrs. Jacquelyn STEINER, who goes under the name of Mrs. Jacquelyn Jones, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 9, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dixon L. Pyles, Betty B. Tucker, Danny E. Cupit, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leonard B. Melvin, Jr., Laurel, Miss., for Jones and others. D. Gary Sutherland, Hattiesburg, Miss., for General Motors.

E. Brooke Ferris, III, William S. Mullins, III, Laurel, Miss., for Bush Dairy & Emp. Mut. Liability Ins. Co.

Richard E. Stratton, III, Brookhaven, Miss., James T. Flynt, Mineola, Tex., for Babst and others.

Before THORNBERRY, AINSWORTH and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This unusual Mississippi diversity suit for declaratory and injunctive relief and for damages for wrongful death grows out of the death of Travis G. Jones, Jr., in an automobile accident in April 1970 in Jones County, Mississippi. It involves a contest between rival groups of survivors for the right to damages and other proceeds resulting from Jones' death. Jones was first lawfully married to Jeanette English (now Mrs. Jeanette Jones Griggs...

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