Illinois Cent. R. v. Ihlenberg
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. This was an action by Rudolph Ihlenberg against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for personal injuries. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. This was an action by Rudolph Ihlenberg against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for personal injuries. There was a judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error. Rudolph Ihlenberg, the plaintiff below and the defendant in error, was a locomotive fireman employed by the Illinois Central Railroad Company, the defendant below and the plaintiff in error here, in July, 1891. He had been employed as fireman for 18 days before he was hurt, though actually engaged in work but 10 days. He had never…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, Circuit Judge
The assignments of error seek to raise some questions of evidence, but the record is not in such a condition as to permit it. The court allowed the plaintiff, when on the stand, to answer certain questions put to him by his counsel in respect to the pain he suffered, and the knowledge which he had of locomotives before engaging in the service of the defendant. The questions were objected to; the oh jections were overruled; and no exception was taken to the rulings. The absence of exceptions prevents us from considering the correctness of the court’s action on the objections.
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