378 F.2d 934 - Bland v. Hopewell Yacht Club, Inc. — 378 F.2d 934

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Brown v. Craven (1970), United States v. Leach (1970)

20 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Harry P. Anderson, Jr., Richmond, Va. (D. R. Taylor, Williamsburg, Va., and Satterfield, Haw, Anderson, Parkerson & Beazley, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Harvey M. Katz, Attorney, Department of Justice (Barefoot Sanders, Asst. Atty. Gen., and John C. Eldridge, Attorney, Department of Justice, and Claude V. Spratley, Jr., U.S. Atty., on brief), for appellee United States of America.

Edward E. Lane, Richmond, Va. (Robert L. Taylor, Richmond, Va., and William A. Smith, Staten Island, N.Y., and brief), for other appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and CRAVEN, Circuit judges.

PER CURIAM:

¶1

This suit grows out of a collision between two hydroplanes, racing boats in the '266-cubic-inch class,' at a race meet in which one of the drivers was killed. The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for the death of the deceased driver.

¶2

The District Court found that the sole proximate cause of the accident was the negligence of the deceased and entered judgment for the defendants. We find ample support in the record for the findings, conclusions and judgment below.

¶3

Affirmed.