Lillie Bell Gaston v. B. F. Walker, Inc.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This is a diversity case arising out of an automobile-truck collision which occurred in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, on March 14, 1964. The deceased’s car collided violently with the rear of defendant’s stalled truck in the right-hand lane of the Sabine River bridge. The surviving wife and child of decedent, Albert Gaston, commenced this action in state court April 22, 1965, for $103,250 damages alleging negligence of defendant’s driver in stopping his truck on the highway and in failing to place warning devices on the road. The defendant was successful in removing the…