Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Daniel
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 29. — ACTION BY LOUIS DANIEL AGAINST THE LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R. R. CO, FOR PERSONAL INJURIES — March 6. Appeal from Hopkins Circuit Court. J. F. G-ordoN, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES DISCUSSED. 1. Testimony as to appellee’s good character, his character not having been attacked, was wholly improper and extremely prejudicial.
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CASE 29. — ACTION BY LOUIS DANIEL AGAINST THE LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE R. R. CO, FOR PERSONAL INJURIES — March 6. Appeal from Hopkins Circuit Court. J. F. G-ordoN, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES DISCUSSED. 1. Testimony as to appellee’s good character, his character not having been attacked, was wholly improper and extremely prejudicial. (Section 599, Civil Code; Evans, etc., v. Evans, 93 Ky. 518; Sullivan, etc., v. Norris, 8 Bush, 522; Vance etc., v. Vance, 2 Met. 581; C. & O. R’y Co. v. Riddle’s Admx., 24 R. 1689. 2. It was improper to admit…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION op the CbuRT' by
Judge O’R-eak
— Reversing’.
Appellee alleges that while walking across appellant’s railroad tracks in its yard at Madisonville, at a point between Broadway and Sugg streets-, where the. public had been permitted by the, railroad company to so nse its tracks as a passway for more than 20 years-, he was injured by being run against by a car 'detached from the engine. The accident occurred in the nighttime. Appellee claims, or rather his testimony conduces to show, that appellant was making a running switch in the nighttime, and turned the car loose without light or other…
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- Insurance Co. v. RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
- Donovan v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Louisville Bridge Co. v. L. & N. R. R.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1903
- Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. VoightIndiana Supreme Court · 1890
- President of the Baltimore & Reisterstown Turnpike Road v. State ex rel. GrimesCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1889
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- Illinois Central Ry. Co. v. Murphy's Admr.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1906
- Whittaker v. ThornberryCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1948
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Rowland's AdministratorCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1929
- Biddle v. RileySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
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