GUEST HOUSE MOTOR INN, INC. v. DUKE

No. 24256.

384 F.2d 927 (1967)

GUEST HOUSE MOTOR INN, INC., Appellant, v. Mrs. Christine W. DUKE and John W. Duke, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 15, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe R. Wallace, Davies, Williams & Wallace, Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.

Edward L. Hardin, Jr., Francis Hare, Jr., Hare, Wynn, Newell & Newton, Birmingham, Ala., for appellees.

Before RIVES, GOLDBERG and DYER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This is a slip and fall case in which the appellant complains that the district court erred in refusing appellant's request for an affirmative charge, with hypothesis, made pursuant to the practice in the state courts. Such a charge is substantially equivalent to a motion for a directed verdict under Rule 50, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. City of Albertville, Ala. v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., 5 Cir. 1960, 272 F.2d 594...

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