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J. R. WHITLOW v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 6920.

222 F.2d 57 (1955)

J. R. WHITLOW, Appellant, v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY and Western Union Telegraph Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. T. Carswell and Hunter M. Jones, Charlotte, N. C., for appellant.

John S. Cansler, Charlotte, N. C. (Cansler & Cansler, Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellee Seaboard Air Line R. Co.

H. B. Campbell, Charlotte, N. C. (Tillett, Campbell, Craighill & Rendleman, Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellee Western Union Telegraph Co.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a directed verdict for defendants in an action to recover damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff appellant was a lineman employed by the Harrison-Wright Company, which had a contract with the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company to install additional wires on a line of telephone or telegraph poles maintained on its right of way by the Western Union Telegraph Company and to make repairs on the line in connection...

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