Grover Sterling Martin and Cleo Alean Martin v. Unit Rig & Equipment Company, Inc.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Grover Sterling Martin and Cleo Alean Martin 1 appeal from a judgment entered in the District of New Mexico, Juan Burciaga, District Judge, granting the motion of defendant Unit Rig Equipment Company, Inc. for a directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs evidence during the jury trial of this diversity products liability action brought to recover damages for personal injuries claimed to have been sustained by plaintiff as the result of allegedly defective hoisting pins intended to secure in an upright position the bed of a truck driven by plaintiff and…