Court Opinion

ID: 9449407
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:11:38.890281+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:31:49.701611
License: Public Domain

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I agree that the claim for maintenance and cure must be remanded. I would also reverse and remand the negligence claim for retrial. I therefore dissent from the affirmance of judgment on the jury verdict. Plaintiff made a specific request for instructions on the fourth claim of negligence, that reasonable care under the conditions required orders to lash the chairs rather than carry them below. He was entitled to a charge on the claim, whether in his own language or not. Misled by defendant’s counsel, the judge believed he had given the specific charge, and denied the request. The general references in the charge to failure to properly instruct, Plaintiff’s App. p. 3, and to the testimony on normal procedure, pp. 9 and 13, are not sufficient in the light of plaintiff’s request.