Christ Kalopodes, Administrator of the Estate of George A. Kalopodes, Deceased v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

George Kalopodes was fatally injured when, at the fifth floor level and in almost complete darkness, he stepped into the ventilating shaft through which air is supplied for air conditioning the building of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. His administrator recovered a verdict in an action for wrongful death, and the Bank has appealed from the judgment, entered on the verdict, contending that the jury could not reasonably have found that Kalopodes was free of contributory negligence.

We think the District Court properly held that it was a question for the jury.

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