CHURCHILL v. SOUTHERN PAC. CO.

No. 13368.

215 F.2d 657 (1954)

CHURCHILL v. SOUTHERN PAC. CO.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 14, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morgan & Beauzay, Robert Morgan, Johnson, Morgan, Thorne, Speed & Bamford, San Jose, Cal., for appellant.

Dunne, Dunne & Phelps, R. Mitchell S. Boyd, A. B. Dunne, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before ORR and POPE, Circuit Judges, and CARTER, District Judge.


JAMES M. CARTER, District Judge.

The action is one based on negligence, and arises under the diversity of citizenship jurisdiction of the district court. After plaintiff's case was presented to a jury, the court granted the motion of the defendant to dismiss under Rule 41 (b), Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C. A., took the case from the jury and made its written order of dismissal. The correctness of such action by the...

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