Grady County, Georgia v. Imogene Wright Dickerson

JONES, Circuit Judge.

Donald Thomas Dickerson, the husband of the appellee, was driving his automobile through Grady County, Georgia, over U. S. Highway No. 84, also known as State Route 38, on the afternoon of August 6, 1955. There had been an unusually heavy rain. The rain slacked off from heavy to moderate. As the car approached a bridge over Brumbley Creek it went out of control and collided with an abutment on the left side of the bridge. Dickerson was thrown from the car and killed. The decedent’s widow, residing in Louisiana and basing Federal jurisdiction on diversity of citizenship,…