Mrs. Ruby Wright v. Redman Mobile Homes, Inc., and Mickey Earl Echols
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
These are consolidated appeals from jury-verdicts rendered for defendants in a wrongful death action and a personal injury action, both of which arose out of a motor vehicle collision. Plaintiffs contend on appeal that the trial court committed error in (1) instructing the jury on the Georgia theory of unavoidable accident, and (2) excluding photographs showing a reconstruction of the collision scene.
The disputed duty charge is set forth, in part, as follows:
Likewise, if the injury and death were the result of an accident, unmixed and unconnected with any failure on…
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- Pickering v. WagnonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1955
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