Peggy Williamson v. Charles R. "Dick" Brown

The legal representative of the minor child of the decedent Williamson brings this Louisiana diversity action against the defendant Brown. In claiming damages for wrongful death, the plaintiff contends that Brown struck Williamson on the head, causing injuries from which he died. Since there were no witnesses to the alleged altercation, the plaintiff depends upon circumstantial evidence relating to the type and place of head injury that resulted in Williamson’s death. After bench trial, the district judge entered judgment that the plaintiff take nothing. Pertinently to the issue raised by the…