Richard T. Hawley v. Alaska Steamship Company, a Corporation

BONE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant brought this action for damages under the Jones Act, 46 U. S.C.A. § 688, alleging that negligence of appellee was the proximate cause of injuries sustained by him while working in the hold of one of appellee’s ships. At the close of the plaintiff’s case in a trial before a jury the lower court granted defendant-appellee’s motion for a judgment of -dismissal for insufficiency of the evidence to prove the alleged causé of action. A motion for a new trial was denied and from the judgment and order of dismissal with prejudice plaintiff prosecuted this…