Tuohy v. Columbia Steel Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is an action by John Tuohy against the Columbia Steel Company to recover for personal injuries resulting from the loss of an eye, sustained by plaintiff while working as a foreman in the molding department of defendant’s machine shop.
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From Multnomah: William N. Gatens, Judge. Statement by Mr. Justice McBride. This is an action by John Tuohy against the Columbia Steel Company to recover for personal injuries resulting from the loss of an eye, sustained by plaintiff while working as a foreman in the molding department of defendant’s machine shop. Plaintiff’s evidence tends to show that at the time of the accident he was engaged in making a thermite weld, the processes of making it being unnecessary to describe, upon a defective casting. In the prosecution of this work, it was necessary to have a piece cut off of a tenpenny…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McBride
1, 2. It has been frequently held that a willful attempt by a plaintiff in a personal injury case to show that the defendant was protected by insurance constitutes reversible error. The ground for this holding is that a knowledge that the defendant has such protection might have a tendency to render jurors careless as to the amount of the verdict. • But the rule is not universal. In the case at bar the witness was an attorney, and the fact that as such and acting for an insurance company he had procured a statement from a prospective witness in regard to certain facts was admissible to show…
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