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SADLER v. NEW HANOVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC.

No. 77-2444.

588 F.2d 914 (1978)

Irma H. SADLER, Executrix of the Estate of Johnnie Dewey Hodges, Jr., Deceased, Appellee, v. NEW HANOVER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, INC., a corporation, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Dumay Gorham, Jr., Wilmington, N. C. (Marshall, Williams, Gorham & Brawley, Wilmington, N. C., on brief), for appellant.

Lionel L. Yow, Wilmington, N. C. (Yow & Yow, John F. Crossley, Crossley & Johnson, Wilmington, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Circuit Judge, FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge, and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

We authorized this interlocutory appeal to review the correctness of the district court's ruling that it had diversity jurisdiction in a wrongful death action against a citizen of North Carolina brought by an executrix who is a citizen of Virginia for beneficiaries who are citizens of North Carolina. We affirm.

I.

Johnnie Dewey Hodges, Jr. was a citizen of North Carolina who became...

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