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WEBB v. OLD SALEM, INC.

No. 13060.

416 F.2d 223 (1969)

Robert WEBB, Jr., Appellant, v. OLD SALEM, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 24, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene H. Phillips, Winston-Salem, N. C., for appellant.

J. R. Elster, Winston-Salem, N. C. (R. M. Stockton, Jr., and Hudson, Petree, Stockton, Stockton & Robinson, Winston-Salem, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, CRAVEN and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.

CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:

In this diversity jurisdiction case, Robert Webb, Jr., a Virginia citizen, sought damages for injuries sustained in his fall from a scaffold claimed to have been negligently erected by agents of Old Salem, Inc., a North Carolina corporation. The primary question presented on Webb's appeal from the district court's denial of recovery is one of contract interpretation. We read the contract differently than did the district judge, and reverse....

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