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STAPLIN v. MARITIME OVERSEAS CORP.

No. 693, Docket 74-1506.

519 F.2d 969 (1975)

Robert Fross STAPLIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARITIME OVERSEAS CORP., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis J. Dooley, Orange, N. J. (Henry Isaacson, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Joseph V. Fleming, New York City (Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, J. Ward O'Neill, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before FEINBERG, TIMBERS and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges.

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

This case presents another aspect of the attempt of trial judges to control verdicts they regard as excessive and the rights of plaintiffs to appeal from such action. In one of those coincidences that makes the law so fascinating, the procedures utilized here are almost the precise reverse of those in Reinertsen v. George W. Rogers Constr. Corp., 519 F.2d 531 (2d Cir. 1975), in which this court recently...

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