Downing v. Dondlinger & Sons Construction Co.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT DONDLINGER & SONS JUDGMENT NOTWITHSTANDING THE VERDICT

ELMO B. HUNTER, District Judge.

This matter is presently before the Court on defendant Dondlinger’s motion to set aside the jury verdict and for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.

This is a diversity action arising out of a very serious accident and resultant injury to plaintiff Roy Downing while he was employed as a steel worker on the construction of military housing on the premises at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. At the time of the accident the military post at Fort Leonard Wood was owned by the…