UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION v. McCRANEY

No. 17152.

257 F.2d 457 (1958)

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Hugh McCRANEY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce C. Aultman, Hattiesburg, Miss., for appellant.

Leonard B. Melvin, Jr., Leonard B. Melvin, Sr., Harold W. Melvin, Laurel, Miss., for appellee. Melvin, Melvin & Melvin, Laurel, Miss., of counsel.

John S. Burchmore, Robert N. Burchmore, Chicago, Ill., for The Nat. Industrial Traffic League as an amicus curiae. Burchmore, Good & Bobinette, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and JONES and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

The suit was for damages for personal injuries received by plaintiff, an employee of O & E Trucking Company, who was injured while unloading for the consignee at Laurel, Mississippi, a shipment of casing or pipe which had been loaded by the defendant at McKeesport, Pa., and consigned to Larco Drilling Co.

The claim was that the defendant was negligent in the discharge of its duty in loading said car to use safe stakes or standards...

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