Stanford James v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company

The primary question here was — When should appellee have known that he had the silicosis condition from which he claimed to be suffering at the time of the trial? This was properly submitted to the jury by the district judge under the doctrine of Urie v. Thompson, 337 U.S. 163, 170, 69 S.Ct. 1018, 93 L.Ed. 1282.

Any inference unfavorable to appellant that might have been drawn from the trial court’s comment with reference to a statement taken by appellant’s claim department and used in cross-examination of an appellee witness was, we think, eliminated by the court’s specific direction to the…