FOWKES v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 12680.

264 F.2d 397 (1959)

Charles C. FOWKES v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 10, 1959.

Rehearing Denied April 7, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce R. Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Pringle, Bredin & Martin, Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for petitioner.

Samuel H. Stewart, Philadelphia, Pa. (Robert C. Duffy, Philadelphia, Pa., Norman P. Wolken, Pittsburgh, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GOODRICH, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.


HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

The sole question on this appeal from a money judgment in a Federal Employers' Liability Act case is whether the court erred in its disposition of a question concerning the statute of limitations.

At the trial the defendant offered no evidence after the completion of the plaintiff's case in chief. Judgment was for the plaintiff pursuant to a jury's answers to special interrogatories. In an opinion...

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