Alton R. Wright, Special Administrator of the Estate of Tommy Lee Wright, Deceased v. Gailen D. Hoover and Earl R. Hoover
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHES, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff has appealed from an adverse judgment entered upon a jury verdict, in a wrongful death action. Jurisdiction is established by diversity of citizenship and the requisite amount in controversy.
Tommy Lee Wright, plaintiff’s decedent, was two years and three months old on September 1, 1960, the date he died as the result of fatal injuries sustained in the automobile collision giving rise to this action. In their amended answer to plaintiff’s complaint, defendants admitted liability. The case being thus posited, the evidence was brief, was introduced almost…
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