Schmitt v. Doehler Die Casting Co.

The Court of Appeals held that the trial court was in error in excluding two items of evidence proffered by the plaintiff.

The first of these is a statement claimed to have been made by the plaintiff’s husband the night of the alleged first injury in October, 1938, when he was employed as an engineer in the compressor room at the defendant’s plant. It is claimed that he slipped and fell across a pipe; that he struck his right chest against the pipe; and that this “caused an injury to the decedent’s liver resulting in obstruction and necrosis of the liver, disturbance in its function, a…