COREY v. JONES

No. 80-7257.

650 F.2d 803 (1981)

Shirley R. COREY and Allen G. Corey, Sr., Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Allen G. Corey, Jr., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Charles W. JONES, III, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B

July 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bodenheimer, Busbee & Hickey, John T. Bodenheimer, Aiken, S. C., Nixon, Yow, Waller & Capers, Richard E. Miley, Augusta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

John Samuel Choate, Jr., William C. Calhoun, Augusta, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before JONES, TJOFLAT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, Circuit Judge:

Appellants appeal from an adverse jury verdict in this wrongful death action. They raise three errors on appeal: (1) that the Georgia Guest Passenger Rule is unconstitutional; (2) that the district court erred in sending the issue of intervening cause to the jury; and (3) that, in any event, the court erred in refusing their instruction on intervening cause. We find no merit in the first two alleged errors but agree with the...

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