Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation v. James A. Stapleton

STEWART, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for damages for personal injuries entered upon a jury’s verdict in a diversity of citizenship case.

The appellee, James A, Stapleton, entered the employ of the appellant company as a uniformed plant guard in 1947 when the company took over the operation of the so-called “Y-12” plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Stapleton had originally been employed as a guard at the Y-12 plant in 1944 by a predecessor company, and all that company’s personnel records, including Stapleton’s, were turned over to the appellant company in 1947 when it took over…