Campbell v. Marquis

The parties will be referred to throughout this opinion as they appeared in the trial court. Gould Denny Campbell, the appellee in this court, was the plaintiff in the trial court, and Gilbert Leland Marquis, the appellant herein, was the defendant. The defendant is married to a sister of the plaintiff, and the families have been friends for a number of years.

In May of 1956 both the plaintiff and defendant had been furloughed from their place of employment in the city of Wells-ton. On Monday, May 14,1956, the plaintiff and defendant left Wellston to go to Dayton, Ohio, to seek employment. At…