New Orleans & N. E. R. v. Clements
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the South ern District of Mississippi. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries, brought by E. T. Clements against the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company, a corporation created under the laws of the state of Louisiana, and tried before the circuit court and a jury, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered against the defendant for $12,500. There was a motion by the railroad company for a…
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the South ern District of Mississippi. This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries, brought by E. T. Clements against the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company, a corporation created under the laws of the state of Louisiana, and tried before the circuit court and a jury, in which a verdict and judgment were rendered against the defendant for $12,500. There was a motion by the railroad company for a new trial, which was overruled, and thereupon this writ of error was sued out. The defendant in error, Clements, was an…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as anovej. The first assignment of error is based upon the following:
“On the cross-examination of plaintiff, E. T. Clements, the connsel of defendant asked the said Clements, who was testifying in his own behalf, the question, ‘Now, Mr. Clements, didn’t you .get a large sum of money (four or five thousand dollars) from an accident insurance company, on a policy on your life and limb, at that time?’ which question was objected to by the plaintiff’s counsel as irrelevant and immaterial. The court sustained said objection, to which the defendant then and there, in open…
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- Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. ArchibaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
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