Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Griffith
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This was an action brought by Emma Griffith in the Court of Common Pleas of Licking County, Ohio, against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to recover for injuries received on August 1, 1888, by the collision of a train of. that company with the vehicle in which plaintiff was then being conveyed.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO. This was an action brought by Emma Griffith in the Court of Common Pleas of Licking County, Ohio, against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, to recover for injuries received on August 1, 1888, by the collision of a train of. that company with the vehicle in which plaintiff was then being conveyed. The cause was removed on the petition of the company into the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio, where it ivas tried, and resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The verdict was returned June 11, and the motion for a new trial was overruled and judgment entered on the verdict, December 12, 1890. The Circuit Court gave interest on the verdict and rendered judgment for $5154.17 and costs. Plaintiff’s counsel excepted to the allowance of interest and also to the refusal of the court to permit a remittitur. Conceding that it is ordinarily within the discretion of the court below to permit or to deny a remittitur, Pacific Company v. O’Con nor, 128 U. S. 394, and cases cited, it is argued here that interest was not allowable on verdicts under the local law…
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