Legal Opinion
Gaddy v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 30, 1967No. Nos. 17425, 17426PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered in an FELA case, arising out of the death of James B. Gaddy, a railroad employee. Two women, Mrs. Dorothy Marie Husted Gaddy and Mrs. Hazel Gaddy, claim to be his widow. It is undisputed that Dorothy was the first of the two to be married to Gaddy and that they were married in 1954 in a formal ceremony. In 1959 Dorothy filed a divorce action in Las Vegas, but failed to prosecute it. Three years after Dorothy had left him, Gaddy married Hazel in 1962 in a formal ceremony. At the time of his death in 1964 Gaddy was living with…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Michigan Central Railroad v. VreelandSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Dice v. Akron, Canton & Youngstown RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Thompson v. CampCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1947
- Great Northern Ry. Co. v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1918
- Huber v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad CompanyDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1965
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Gaddy v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1967