Pure Oil Pipe Line Co. v. Ross

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge.

Ross brought this action against the Pure Oil Pipe Line Company to recover damages for personal injuries. Prom a judgment for plaintiff defendant has appealed.

At the trial plaintiff testified as a witness in his own behalf. On cross-examination he was asked whether he had pleaded guilty in the county court of Payne County, at Still-water, to selling intoxicating liquor, and had been sentenced to pay a fine of $106 and to serve thirty days in jail. On the objection of counsel for plaintiff the court ruled that a conviction for a violation of a Prohibition Law cannot be…