Patricia D. Bauer, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Susan M. Pointer, Deceased v. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.

ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Susan Pointer died on a stormy afternoon in May 1995, when a tractor-trailer driven by an employee of J.B. Hunt Transport veered from the right side of the road and rolled over on top of her vehicle. Patricia Bauer, the administrator of Pointer’s estate, filed suit in diversity against J.B. Hunt, a Georgia corporation, charging it with negligence; a jury found in the defendant’s favor. Bauer appeals, contending that the district court erroneously refused to instruct the jury that it was J.B. Hunt’s burden to prove that the weather, as opposed to its own…