Jose Rivera Echevarria and Fortunato Rivera Echevarria B/n/f Jose Rivera Echevarria v. United States Steel Corporation

MAJOR, Senior Circuit Judge.

This action was brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by Fortunato Rivera Echevarria, an infant, resulting from defendant’s alleged negligence, and for medical expense and loss of services to his father, Jose Rivera Echevarria. The case was tried to a jury which returned verdicts favorable to plaintiffs, assessing the infant’s damages at $40,000 and the father’s at $5,000, upon which judgments were entered. Defendant’s post-trial motions for judgments notwithstanding the verdicts or, in the alternative, for a new trial were denied, and…