Case Name: Uram, Appellant, v. American Steel & Wire Company of New Jersey
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1954-11-15
Citations: 379 Pa. 375
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 77
Parties: Uram, Appellant, v. American Steel & Wire Company of New Jersey.
Judges: Before Stern, C. J., Stearns, Jones, Chidsey, Musmanno and Arnold, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 379
Pages: 375–387

Head Matter:
Uram, Appellant, v. American Steel & Wire Company of New Jersey.
November 15, 1954:
Argued October 5, 1954.
Before Stern, C. J., Stearns, Jones, Chidsey, Musmanno and Arnold, JJ.
Louis Taira, with him J. Thomas Hoffman, for appellant.
Chauncey Pruger, with him Reed, Smith, Shaw é MeOlay, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion
Per Curiam,
The judgment is affirmed on the opinion of Judge Drew for the court en banc. The verdict for the defendant resulted from a fair trial. The case was pains takingly submitted to the jury in a thorough and impartial charge at the conclusion whereof plaintiff's counsel, upon direct inquiry from the trial judge, expressly disclaimed any cause for complaint. The strictures now passed by the appellant on the conduct of the trial are unwarranted. The one cited instance of irritation shown by the trial judge occurred when it became necessary for him to caution a witness, called by the plaintiff, against any repetition of the witness's gratuitous injection into the case of highly irrelevant and prejudicial matter and was directly provoked by the witness's insolent and contumacious attitude toward the court's justified rebuke. The ultimate exclusion of certain evidence, which the trial judge had invited plaintiff's counsel to produce, was not error. The proffered testimony was at all times irrelevant and immaterial and had no proper place in the case.
Judgment affirmed.