Strickland Transp. Co. v. Gunter

RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff in an action for damages for the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Donald Gunter, in a collision between a pick-up truck driven by the deceased and a transport truck and trailer driven by Gorman Smith, an employee of his oo-defendant, Strickland Transportation Company. The action was originally brought in the State court, and removed to the Federal court on the ground of diversity of citizenship;

The collision in which Gunter was apparently instantly killed qccurred about daylight on the morning…