Jose A. Rodriguez v. Brunswick Corporation

OPINION OF THE COURT

FREEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant in a diversity case from a judgment entered on a jury’s verdict in favor of plaintiff in the amount of $30,000, reduced on remittitur to $28,600.

Plaintiff, a native of Puerto Rico, was a Sergeant in the Armed Forces of the United States, and from 1959 to 1961 was stationed at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C., where he managed the bowling alley in addition to coaching the baseball team and participating in athletics. In 1961, in order to qualify him to service the Brunswick automatic bowling pinsetters, the…