Williams v. Bambauer

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KEADY, Chief Judge.

In these consolidated diversity actions, Ruth Louise Williams and Edward Smith, Louisiana citizens and adult children of the defendant, sue their mother, Agnes Bambauer, a Mississippi citizen, for bodily injuries sustained by them in a one-car accident occurring on February 5, 1970. On that date, the defendant was driving a Ford Falcon station wagon in which plaintiffs were riding as rear-seat passengers, when the automobile, proceeding northwardly on U. S. Highway 49W in Humphreys County, Mississippi, ran off the left (or west) side of the highway into a…