Harris v. Detroit City Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne. (Gartner, J.) Negligence case.- Defendant brings error. The facts, and points of counsel passed upon by the Court,, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
Plaintiff .recovered a judgment in the court, below for damages occasioned by the negligence of defendant in starting its street-car while plaintiff was in the act of' alighting, by which she was thrown to the ground and injured. After her injury she was conducted to the house of Margaret. Dwyer, who testified that—
“ There was a lump raising on her wrist.”
She was then asked:
“Did she make any exclamations of pain? State what her exclamations of pain were."”
Both questions were objected to as incompetent and irrelevant ; not being part of the res gestee. The objections were-rightly overruled. 1…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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