SPRINGER v. BRYANT

No. 89-7272.

897 F.2d 1085 (1990)

Carlton G. SPRINGER, Sr., as Administrator of the Estate of Bettie I. Springer, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles Ray BRYANT; and Tennessee Valley Authority, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 2, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Higginbotham, Higginbotham & Whitten, Thomas McCutcheon, Florence, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

James E. Fox, Deputy General Counsel, Edwin W. Small and Robert C. Glinski, Assistant General Counsels, D. Mark Hastings, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, ANDERSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This case commenced as a wrongful death action in Alabama state court against Charles Ray Bryant, and the Tennessee Valley Authority ("TVA"). The action arose out of an October 27, 1987 car accident in which plaintiff-appellant's decedent, Bettie I. Springer, died. The complaint alleged that Bryant caused the accident and that Bryant was driving a TVA truck in the course and scope of his TVA employment at the time of the accident. The suit...

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