Mescall v. W. T. Grant Co.

KERNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendant in an action brought to recover damages alleged to have been caused by defendant’s failure to furnish a safe place of employment, for fraud in depriving plaintiff of his action for damages, and on a contract to pay the plaintiff’s salary during his disability. There was a trial before a jury. At the conclusion of all the evidence, the court, being of the opinion that there was no evidence which would warrant a finding that defendant’s negligence was the proximate cause of plaintiff’s illness, that there was no…