Ohio River Contract Co. v. Gordon

Opinion op the Court by

Chief Justice Miller

Overruling motions.

This was an original proceeding in this court by the Ohio Eiver Contract Company as petitioner, to prohibit Thomas E. Gordon, judge of the Jefferson circuit court, from proceeding with the trial of the case of John J. Haines v. Ohio River Contract Co., then pending in Judge Gordon’s court.

Haines’ suit was for damages for personal injuries received by him while working for the petitioner in the construction of a lock and dam in the Louisville & Portland canal, upon land which was the property of the United States; and the petitioner…