Legal Opinion
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and Monsanto Chemical Company v. Mrs. Winnie Ruth Brown Falgoust
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 17, 1967No. 23268PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
In these Louisiana diversity damage suits growing out of the death of one worker and injury to another, the attack of appellants is against the failure of the trial judge to grant their motion for a directed verdict or judgment notwithstanding the verdict and, alternatively, against the denial of a new trial.
On July 13, 1961, Francis T. Falgoust was killed and Harold Reiss sustained physical injuries when the boom of a crane with which they were working came into contact with an overhead uninsulated 13,800-volt power line at Monsanto Chemical Company’s plant at…
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- Berry v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
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