BELL v. SWIFT & COMPANY

No. 18194.

283 F.2d 407 (1960)

James F. BELL, Appellant, v. SWIFT & COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 9, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas S. Hare, Monroeville, Ala., for appellant.

Sam W. Pipes, III, Mobile, Ala., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

The sole issue on this appeal is whether the district court erred in not requiring the defendant to answer interrogatories propounded by the plaintiff.

A lawsuit is not so rule-bound that one side wins whenever the other side breaks a rule. To succeed in an appeal based on an infraction of the rules, the appellant must show that the infraction was a substantial error prejudicing the appellant's case. Here, it may be said that the district...

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