Terrell McCoy Creekmore and Wife, Opal Young Creekmore v. United States of America, Otis Elevator Company, a Corporation

HILL, Senior Circuit Judge:

The appellants, Otis Elevator Company and the United States, appeal the district court’s favorable judgment on behalf of the appellees, Terrell McCoy Creekmore and his wife, Opal Young Creekmore. At trial, the appellees sought damages resulting from bodily injuries sustained by Terrell McCoy Creekmore as a result of a sudden, short fall of an elevator at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The district court applied Alabama law and held that the appellees might have the benefit of res ipsa loquitur, that is, a rebuttable presumption of…