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JOHNSON v. WILLIAM C. ELLIS & SONS IRON WORKS

No. 77-1919.

604 F.2d 950 (1979)

Susie Mae JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant Cross-Appellee, v. WILLIAM C. ELLIS & SONS IRON WORKS, INC., etc., Defendant-Appellee. Long Reach Manufacturing, a Division of Anderson, Clayton & Co., Defendant-Appellee Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Lawson Holladay, P. J. Townsend, Jr., Drew, Miss., for Johnson.

W. O. Luckett, Jr., Clarksdale, Miss., for Ellis.

W. Swan Yerger, Robert T. Gordon, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for Long Reach.

Before TUTTLE, GODBOLD and RUBIN, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

Jack Johnson died at the age of 20 as a result of injuries received while he was working on a cotton compress. His mother seeks in this diversity action to recover damages for his death from the company that had repaired and rebuilt the compress thirteen years before, and from the company that had later manufactured and installed a bale unloader device on the machine. The district court directed a verdict for the repairer; held that...

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