EVANS v. NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK COMPANY

No. 10354.

361 F.2d 364 (1966)

Wendell EVANS, Appellant, v. NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING & DRY DOCK COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 11, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Urban A. Lester, Washington, D. C. (Albert H. Greene, Washington, D. C., Robert L. Murphy, Alexandria, Va., Robert M. Stefanon, Greensburg, Pa., and Larson & Greene, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellant.

Phillips M. Dowding, Newport News, Va., for appellee.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and FIELD, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

For serious personal injuries suffered by Wendell Evans on July 16, 1962 while working as a welder in the erection of cranes at the Virginia shipyard of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, he sued for damages, alleging the company's negligence as the cause of the accident. At the time, he was in the employ of McLean Contracting Company, which had been engaged by the shipbuilding company to install two cranes. The action was dismissed &...

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