Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Co. v. McGrath

This was an action against the railway company to recover damages for the killing of plaintiff’s intestate through the alleged negligence of the defendant, wherein the plaintiff recovered. The judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court for the First District, and defendant took this appeal.

Error is assigned in the excluding of the deposition of a witness taken before the coroner, upon a coroner’s inquest upon the body of the deceased, the witness being dead. English cases are cited where such depositions have been held admissible in evidence. Starkie, in remarking upon this subject,…