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JETER v. ST. REGIS PAPER CO.

No. 73-3470.

507 F.2d 973 (1975)

John R. JETER, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ST. REGIS PAPER CO., Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant, American Employers Insurance Company, Intervenor, Mid South Painting Specialist, etc., Third Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 6, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Sessums, James L. Young, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff-appellant.

John M. Roach, Curtis E. Coker, Jackson, Miss., for St. Regis.

W. Swan Yerger, Jackson, Miss., for Mid South Painting.

James A. Becker, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for Am. Employ. Ins. Co.

Before COLEMAN, CLARK and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

John R. Jeter, Jr. was paralyzed from the chest down in a forty foot fall from a "swinging scaffold" on which he had been painting. Having received Mississippi Workmen's Compensation benefits from his employer, Mid-South Painting Specialists, Jeter now seeks compensatory damages against the owner of the chemical silo he was painting, St. Regis Paper Company, for whom his own employer was working as an independent contractor. A jury returned a...

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