Legal Opinion

Frances H. Turner, as Guardian for Frank N. Turner v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided July 20, 1961No. 18403_1PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff below, as guardian of her husband, Frank N. Turner, an incompetent, appeals from the district court’s granting of the defendant’s motion for judgment under Rule 50(b), F.R.Civ.P., 28 U.S.C.A.

Around six in the morning of November 8, 1955, Frank Turner was driving his 1955 Ford Victoria automobile on the Hoffmeyer Road, a black asphalt farm-to-market road located outside the city limits of Florence, South Carolina. He had left home, five and a half miles away, about thirty minutes earlier. It was a dark and foggy morning and visibility was poor. Turner had…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Wilkerson v. McCarthySupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  2. Galloway v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  3. Slaton v. HallSupreme Court of Georgia · 1929
  4. Swift & Co. v. Morgan & SturdivantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1954
  5. Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. AdamsCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1929

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  4. Louis W. Silverii, Administrator of the Estate of Dominick J. Mash, Deceased v. Wilson Kramer and John W. PriceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1963
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