Legal Opinion
Hobart v. Sohio Petroleum Company
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided June 29, 1966No. GC 6337PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CLAYTON, Chief Judge.
This action was brought by the Mississippi administrators of the estates of two deceased minors, Kenneth Ray McClure Hobart and Roy Lorenzo Jones, to recover damages for their alleged wrongful deaths, pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated 1942 (Recompiled) § 1453. The defendant, Sohio Petroleum Company, is an Ohio corporation with its principal place of business in Ohio. The matter in controversy exceeds the sum or value of $10,000 and jurisdiction thus rests on the diverse citizenship of the parties. 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
The plaintiffs alleged that their…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Campo v. ScofieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1950
- District of Columbia v. MoultonSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Harrist v. Spencer-Harris Tool Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1962
- Sawyer v. Pine Oil Sales Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1946
- Nello Morrocco and Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co., of Wisconsin v. Northwest Engineering Company, a Delaware CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1962
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Martinez v. Dixie Carriers, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Mrs. Frances Buckley Ward, Cross-Appellant v. The Hobart Manufacturing Company, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Hobart v. Sohio Petroleum Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Raymond L. Sprankle, Cross-Appellee v. Bower Ammonia & Chemical Co., Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1987
- City of Jackson v. BallMississippi Supreme Court · 1990
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