SPARKS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff appeals from an order denying his motion for a new trial in his suit under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq. The principal question he seeks to present by the appeal is whether the court erred in one of its instructions to the jury relating to the assumption of risk. He asserts that the court erroneously permitted the defense of assumed risk although such defense was abolished by amendment of the...
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