Leonard v. Wharton

HARVEY, District Judge:

At approximately 9:15 P.M. on June 21, 1961, the Pontiac sedan being driven by Colonel James P. Wharton on U.S. Route 25 in Henderson County, North Carolina, suddenly veered to the left across the center line of the highway and smashed head-on into a heavily laden tractor-trailer going in the opposite direction. His wife of but nineteen days, Mrs. Helen Duffy Wharton, was a passenger in the front seat of the Pontiac and died some ten hours later of internal injuries received in the accident. Before she died, Mrs. Wharton stated that her husband had deliberately pressed…