Grady Hamrick v. Aerojet--General Corporation, Industrial Systems Division, an Ohio Corporation

Plaintiff-appellant seeks reversal of the decision of the District Court denying him relief for personal injuries which he allegedly suffered as the result of defendant-appellee’s negligence. The complaint was filed in the Court of Common Pleas of Kanawha County, West Virginia, and was removed by the defendant to the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia on the basis of diversity of citizenship. The trial court, sitting without jury, found that the defendant was not negligent, and that the plaintiff himself was guilty of contributory negligence and assumption…