Haywood v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

This is a Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, case in which the plaintiff, Playwood, a seaman, failed to convince a jury that the defendant corporation, his employer and the operator of a vessel on which he was working, was responsible for his sustaining an injurious fall. The principal questions which Haywood raises on this appeal are whether the District Court committed reversible error in excluding certain evidence and whether there was any substantial evidence to justify the court’s action in submitting the issue of contributory negligence to the jury.

The accident happened…