Legal Opinion
Complaint of Farrell Lines Inc.
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided January 7, 1975No. Civ. A. No. 3033PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.
I
Background of the Claim
Shortly before eight o’clock on the night of November 7, 1972, a Chevrolet occupied by six persons was crossing the Sidney Lanier Bridge. It spans the Brunswick River below Brunswick, Georgia. The car was driven by Kelly Johns, aged twenty-three. His wife Betty was seated next to him. In her lap was their two year-old son, Arthur Lewis. In the rear were seated Doris Ann Smith, aged sixteen, and her grandmother, Delia Johns.1 Kelly Johns, Jr., aged three, was between them.
It was Election Day and Leon Smith, the husband of one of Mrs. Delia Johns’…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Dillon v. LeggCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968
- The HarrisburgSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Sea-Land Services, Inc. v. GaudetSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Sam H. Johnson v. Penrod Drilling Company, James L. Starnes v. Penrod Drilling CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Janet L. Harden and James M. Harden v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Dierker v. Gypsum Transportation, Ltd.District Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1985
- Pucci v. Carnival Corp.District Court, S.D. Florida · 2016
- Warnie Lee Ivy, Cross-Appellants v. Security Barge Lines, Inc., Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Warnie Lee Ivy, Cross-Appellants v. Security Barge Lines, Inc., Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979