Ristucci v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.

MACK, Circuit Judge.

Petition, alleging diversity of citizenship, charged that an accident which occasioned injuries to plaintiff while he was engaged in defendant’s employ, arose from the concurrence of two factors, each due to defendant’s *29negligence, the undue length of a swivel hook on a wrench supplied by defendant to plaintiff to enable him to close hopper car doors and a pronounced bend in an angle iron on the frame of a hopper ear door, due to which the wrench slipped. From judgment on a .directed verdict plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

Plaintiff had been employed at dosing hopper ear…