HIGGINBOTHAM v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 74-3716.

540 F.2d 762 (1976)

Grady Michael HIGGINBOTHAM, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross Appellant, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant-Cross Appellee, John Henry Lee and Veronica P. Lee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 14, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben L. Weinberg, Jr., F. Clay Bush, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.

William O. Carter, Hartwell, Ga., Sam S. Harben, Jr., Gainesville, Ga., for Higginbotham.

Julius M. Hulsey, Gainesville, Ga., for J.H. Lee and V.P. Lee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, and GOLDBERG and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this Georgia diversity case, confined as we are to the narrow tracks of Erie,1 we must decide how the Georgia courts would treat a potpourri of issues arising out of a collision between two automobiles. Plaintiff Grady Michael Higginbotham sued Ford Motor Company and the Lees (Veronica P. and her father, John Henry) for the wrongful death of his wife of six months, Diann Bradshaw Higginbotham, and for his own...

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