Swayne & Hoyt, Inc. v. Barsch
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Robert S. Bean, Judge. Action by Gustav Barsch against Swayne & Hoyt, Incorporated. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The parties herein will be designated’ plaintiff and defendant, as in the court below. The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant, a corporation, for damages on account of personal injuries sustained by him while working on a dock in discharging the cargo of the steamer Camino, at Portland, Or.
[1, 2] One of the assignments of error is that the court denied the defendant’s request to instruct the jury to return a verdict for the defendant on the ground that, by the uncontradicted evidence in the case, the defendant was the managing agent only of the…
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