Corrigan v. E. W. Bohren Transp. Co.

Combs, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action for wrongful death. By reason of diversity of citizenship of the parties, the action was brought in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.

There is little dispute about the facts. The accident which caused the decedent’s death occurred at approximately 1:30 a. m., on the Lakeland Expressway near Cleveland, Ohio. The Lakeland Expressway is a four-lane superhighway with a median strip separating the eastbound and westbound lanes. The decedent, Mrs. Shirlee Ann…