Phillips v. Morton Frozen Foods

OPINION

JOHN E. MILLER, Senior District Judge (Sitting by Designation).

This is an action by which the plaintiff, Matt Phillips, seeks damages from defendant, Morton Frozen Foods, resulting from personal injuries sustained by plaintiff in a fall which occurred at defendant’s plant at Russellville, Arkansas, on November 7, 1965.

Maryland Casualty Company, the workmen’s compensation carrier for plaintiff’s employer, has filed a motion to intervene in the present action in order to claim its statutory lien on the proceeds of any recovery herein.

The court has jurisdiction by virtue of diversity of…