WILSON v. CAPITAL AIRLINES

No. 7297.

240 F.2d 492 (1957)

Alva WILSON, Appellant, v. CAPITAL AIRLINES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Kenyon Wilson, Jr., and John H. Hall, Elizabeth City, N. C. (Wilson & Wilson, Elizabeth City, N. C., on brief), for appellant.

J. C. Goodwin and J. Henry LeRoy, Elizabeth City, N. C., for appellee.

Before SOPER and SOBELOFF, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, District Judge.


THOMSEN, District Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether the district judge erred in directing a verdict for defendant on the ground that there was no evidence legally sufficient to prove any negligence on its part which caused any injury to plaintiff.

In May, 1955, plaintiff was 62 years old and weighed 187 pounds. For three years she had suffered from a benign giant cell tumor in the bones around the left hip joint, for which she had received...

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