Case Name: Eleanora B. Cobb ROGERS, Widow and Administratrix of the Estate of Jim Beckham Cobb, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PEABODY COAL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1966-12-23
Citations: 370 F.2d 111
Docket Number: No. 16972
Parties: Eleanora B. Cobb ROGERS, Widow and Administratrix of the Estate of Jim Beckham Cobb, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PEABODY COAL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and PECK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 370
Pages: 111–112

Head Matter:
Eleanora B. Cobb ROGERS, Widow and Administratrix of the Estate of Jim Beckham Cobb, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PEABODY COAL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 16972.
United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.
Dec. 23, 1966.
Grover C. Cox, Central City, Ky., and John W. Beard, Owensboro, Ky., for appellant.
Morton Holbrook, Sandidge, Holbrook, Craig & Hager, Owensboro, Ky., for appellee.
Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and PECK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Plaintiff-appellant's decedent met his death while doing construction work on defendant-appellee's premises as the employee of a third party. Said third party had under agreement with the defendantappellee undertaken the installation of a major pipeline on which plaintiff-appellant's decedent was working as a welder when the fatal accident occurred.
At trial the District Judge sustained a motion for a directed verdict in its favor made by defendant-appellee at the close of plaintiff-appellant's case on the ground that as a matter of law no cause of action against the defendant-appellee had been established, and judgment for the defendant-appellee was entered. On this appeal from that judgment it is determined that the District Judge did not err in sustaining the motion for a directed verdict and the judgment is affirmed.
It will be observed that plaintiff-appellant has in effect had two opportunities to attempt to establish liability on the part of this defendant-appellee, an earlier judgment in its favor on its motion for summary judgment having been vacated and the cause remanded. Rogers v. Peabody Coal Company, 342 F.2d 749 (6th Cir. 1965).