BOETTGER v. BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY

No. 12041.

242 F.2d 455 (1957)

Harry W. BOETTGER, Appellant, v. The BABCOCK & WILCOX COMPANY.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1957.

Rehearing Denied April 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. McGinley, Allentown, Pa., for appellant.

John B. Hannum, 3d, Philadelphia, Pa. (Richard J. vanRoden, Pepper, Bodine, Frick, Scheetz & Hamilton, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and McLAUGHLIN and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

The judgment from which this appeal was taken was entered for The Babcock & Wilcox Company, defendant below, upon its motion for summary judgment in an action for negligent personal injury. The claim arose out of an industrial accident in Pennsylvania and the suit is within federal jurisdiction solely as a diversity case. Decision below turned upon the trial court's conclusion that the defendant was either the employer or, under the Pennsylvania...

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