Chapman & Dewey Lumber Co. v. Hanks

HICKS, Circuit Judge.

Suit for damages for personal injuries. Verdict and judgment for $15,000.00.

Appellant complains: (1) Of the denial of a directed verdict; (2) of errors in the charge and the court’s refusal to submit certain requests to the jury; (3) errors in the admission and exclusion of evidence ; (4) the excessiveness of the verdict; (5) prejudicial argument; and (6) an abuse of the court’s discretion in overruling certain grounds of the motion for a new trial.

Hanks, thirty-seven years old, an experienced lumber inspector, had been an employee of appellant for eight years. Appellant…