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93 F. 988

Docket No. 17.

The Ed. Roberts

Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided April 28, 1899.)

Third Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1899-04-28

<p>Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania.</p>

2 counsel of record

Decided 1899-04-28

¶1Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

¶2Albert York Smith, for appellant.

¶3D. F. Patterson, for appellee.

¶4Before AGHESON and DALLAS, Circuit Judges.

¶5ACHESON, Circuit Judge.

¶6The question upon which this case turns is altogether one of fact. If the libelant sustained no substantial injury by reason of his fall, he was not entitled to recover substantial damages, under all the circumstances. Now, the learned district judge found that the libelant had not received any substantial injury from his fall, and that his stay at the Marine Hospital was occasioned by rheumatism, from which he suffered. • This finding is well supported by the proofs. The clear weight of the evidence, we think, is with the respondent upon this question. The medical, certificate which the libelant procured at the hospital, if admissible at all as against the respondent, was explained, and its effect greatly weakened, by the testimony of the physician whose signature it bears. The proofs, considered as a whole, fairly lead to the conclusion that the libelant’s real trouble came from rheumatism, and that his fall had no connection with that ailment. After a most careful examination of this record, it is our judgment that the appellant has no just reason to complain of the action of the court below. Therefore the decree of the district court is affirmed.

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