Leslie W. Jines v. General Electric Company, a Corporation

ORR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant (hereinafter also referred to as Jines) developed tuberculosis. Immediately preceding the discovery that he was afflicted with tuberculosis appellant had been employed by appellee (hereinafter also referred to as GE). Appellant asked for damages upon the grounds that appellee breached its duty to him: (1) in failing to exercise due care in discovering the tubercular condition, and (2) in a failure to disclose the existence of the condition to Jines and'to refrain from assigning him to work which would aggravate the condition after it was or should have been…