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FAIRLEY v. AMERICAN HOIST & DERRICK CO.

No. 79-4083.

640 F.2d 679 (1981)

Paul D. FAIRLEY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AMERICAN HOIST & DERRICK COMPANY, etc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

Rehearing Denied April 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Walter G. Watkins, Jr., Roger C. Landrum, Jackson, Miss., for defendant-appellant.

Cumbest & Cumbest, John L. Hunter and Arvis V. Cumbest, Pascagoula, Miss., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is a nettlesome case. It turns on the validity of a jury verdict, now challenged on the ground that it lacks evidentiary support.

The American Hoist & Derrick Company manufactured an American 999-C crawler crane in 1971. It sold the crane to May Machinery that same year. On the same day that May bought the crane it sold it to Gulf Cities Construction Company. Gulf Cities used the crane for several years and then leased it to Baggett Construction...

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