Lytle v. Union Gas & Elec. Co.

This action was brought in the Hamilton Common Pleas by Lawrence Lytle, administrator of the estate of Albert Thorne, for damages for wrongful death as the result of a collision between an automobile of the Union Gas & Electric Co. driven by one Doran, and a wagon of the City Ice and Fuel Co. The Ice Co. was dismissed from the case and the jury returned a verdict in favor of the Gas Co. upon which judgment was entered.

Error was prosecuted and it was claimed that the court erred in refusing to give the plaintiff’s -written charge to the jury before argument. The requested charge was…