Baltimore & O. R. v. Hellenthal
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. This action was brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, Ohio, against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, the plaintiff in error, to recover damages for the death of William Bauer, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of plaintiff in error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. This action was brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, Ohio, against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, the plaintiff in error, to recover damages for the death of William Bauer, caused, as alleged, by the negligence of plaintiff in error. The case was, upon petition of the defendant, removed into the circuit court of the United States for the Eastern division of the Southern district of Ohio, and the trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for §1,500, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtClark, District Judge
In considering the grounds relied on for reversal in this court, we shall examine the questions in the order in which they would arise in the progress of the trial, rather than according to importance or the order in which they were discussed at the bar. This brings us to the question made on the admission of certain evidence against exception by the defendant. William Bauer, the father of the deceased child, was permitted to testify that the track was straight, and the track and crossing in plain view for about two miles going south, or going from Columbus. There was obj'ection to this at…
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