Clara Rose Melton, Administratrix of the Estate of Mark Melton, Deceased v. O. F. Shearer & Sons, Inc.

O’SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, Clara Rose Melton, administratrix of the estate of her deceased son, appeals from judgment entered upon a jury verdict which absolved defendant-appellee, O. F. Shearer & Sons, of liability for the alleged wrongful death of appellant’s ten year old son. The son was drowned when a flatboat in which he was a passenger was swamped by stern waves created by appellee’s towboat, then operating on the Green River in the State of Kentucky. This diversity case was removed to and tried in the United States District Court for the Western District •of…