Legal Opinion
Juanita Deshazo Billingsley, Administratrix of the Estate of Joe W. Billingsley, Deceased v. The Westrac Company and Donald Earl Adams
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 9, 1966No. 18247PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.
Joe W. Billingsley died as a result of injuries sustained when, in the darkness at about 5:30 on the morning of March 3,1965, the new one-half ton truck he was driving smashed into a tractor-trailer straddling U. S. Highway 70 about twelve and a half miles west of Benton, Arkansas.
The decedent’s widow, as administratrix of his estate, instituted this wrongful death diversity action against Westrac Company, the owner of the tractor-trailer, and Donald Earl Adams, its driver and their employee. The suit rests on alleged negligence of Adams. Negligence on the part of the…
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