Legal Opinion
Duty v. East Coast Tender Service, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 23, 1981No. Nos. 79-1540, 79-1541PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
The case involves two mistakes, one by counsel for the plaintiff, one by the district judge. The mistakes relate to the language of a jury instruction. Are we to reverse for judicial error or should we affirm because of counsel’s failure to draw pertinent authority to the court’s attention which would have readily alerted him to his error, and permitted him to correct it? That is the question.1
THE FACTS
Plaintiff William H. Duty, a carpenter foreman, was employed by the contractor in charge of construction of a liquified natural gas (LNG) port facility located on the…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Kernan v. American Dredging Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1958
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