PATRICK v. SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TEL. CO.

Nos. 78-1176 to 78-1178.

641 F.2d 1192 (1980)

June PATRICK et al., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant, Third Party Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Appellee, v. CITY OF COLUMBIA, Acting Through the Board of Public Utilities, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee-Cross Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lon P. MacFarland, MacFarland, Colley, Blank & Jack, Columbia, Tenn., Mark D. Hallenbeck, Nashville, Tenn., for South Central Bell Tel. Co.

T. Edward Lawwell, James T. DuBois, Shelton, Lawwell & DuBois, Columbia, Tenn., for June Patrick, et al.

William B. Cain, Cain & Moore, Columbia, Tenn., for City of Columbia.

Before KEITH and JONES, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.


KEITH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court in an action which originally consisted of two distinct lawsuits and was tried in two separate parts. Both lawsuits were based on diversity jurisdiction. The first lawsuit dealt with plaintiff-appellee Patrick's wrongful death action against defendant-appellee South Central Bell Telephone Company. This action was tried to a jury and a verdict was returned in Patrick's favor in the amount...

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