Knahtla v. Oregon Short Line, etc., Ry. Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
Defendant appeals. This is an action to recover damages for injuries received by plaintiff in a wreck on defendant’s road, caused by the giving way of a bridge near Cascade Locks and the falling through of a train on which plaintiff was being carried.
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Defendant appeals. This is an action to recover damages for injuries received by plaintiff in a wreck on defendant’s road, caused by the giving way of a bridge near Cascade Locks and the falling through of a train on which plaintiff was being carried. After the service of process, and before the time for answering had expired, the defendant company filed a general demurrer, and at the same time filed a petition for removal of the cause to the circuit court of the United States, accompanied by the usual bond, whereupon the bond was approved and an order made transferring the cause to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Beaít, J.
The record contains numerous assignments of error based upon exceptions duly taken to the ruling of the court during the progress of the trial on the admission of testimony and the giving and refusing instructions to the jury. We shall proceed to examine such of these as we deem material.
It is contended by appellant that the court below lost jurisdiction of this cause by the petition of defendant for removal to the circuit court of the United States and by the order approving the bond and transferring the cause to that court. The circuit court of Wasco county had, under the…
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