HAYWOOD v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP.

No. 10987.

205 F.2d 775 (1953)

HAYWOOD v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hymen Schlesinger, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.

Bruce R. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa., (Chauncey Pruger, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief) for appellee.

Before MARIS, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This is a Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, case in which the plaintiff, Haywood, a seaman, failed to convince a jury that the defendant corporation, his employer and the operator of a vessel on which he was working, was responsible for his sustaining an injurious fall. The principal questions which Haywood raises on this appeal are whether the District Court committed reversible error in excluding certain evidence and whether there was any...

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