CREEKMORE v. U.S.

No. 89-7236.

905 F.2d 1508 (1990)

Terrell McCoy CREEKMORE and wife, Opal Young Creekmore, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Otis Elevator Company, a corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 13, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sadler, Sullivan, Herring & Sharp, P.C., George M. Van Tassel, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for Otis Elevator Co.

Frank W. Donaldson, U.S. Atty., Herbert J. Lewis, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., and Robert S. Greenspan, Matthew M. Collette, and Victoria F. Nourse, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ.Div., Washington, D.C., for the U.S.

Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Robert Sellers Smith, Huntsville, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before COX, Circuit Judge, HILL, Senior Circuit Judge, and SMITH, Senior Circuit Judge.


HILL, Senior Circuit Judge:

The appellants, Otis Elevator Company and the United States, appeal the district court's favorable judgment on behalf of the appellees, Terrell McCoy Creekmore and his wife, Opal Young Creekmore. At trial, the appellees sought damages resulting from bodily injuries sustained by Terrell McCoy Creekmore as a result of a sudden, short fall of an elevator at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville...

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