BERTRAND v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY

No. 16576.

282 F.2d 569 (1960)

Walter A. BERTRAND, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 13, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hepperle & Hepperle, George Olshausen, San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Bledsoe, Smith, Cathcart, Johnson & Phelps, Robert A. Seligson, San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before ORR, HAMLEY and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

Walter A. Bertrand, plaintiff in this action for damages brought under the Federal Safety Appliance Acts and the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 45 U. S.C.A. §§ 1 et seq., 51 et seq., appeals from a judgment for defendant, Southern Pacific Company. The judgment rendered after a jury trial conforms to the verdict. The specifications of error question the giving of two instructions and the refusal to give several instructions proposed...

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