Nobie Cooper Boothe v. James O. Holmes

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge:

This is a diversity case in which the plaintiffs (appellants here) sued James O. Holmes and his employer, the Ash-land Pipeline Company, for personal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 61, at a point about thirteen miles north of Woodville, Mississippi, January 30, 1965. The jury verdict was for the defendants. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

I

At the time and place in question, the appellant, Henry T. Cooper, was driving an automobile in a southerly direction, occupying the west lane of the highway. The other plaintiffs were passengers.…