Bradley v. Adams Express Co.

LEDERLE, District Judge.

The question in this case is whether the trial court committed reversible error in permitting an expert witness to read into the record excerpts from a printed publication..Appellants claim damages because of the destruction or injury of a number of race horses that were being transported by appellee, a common carrier, at the time the wreck occurred on July 7, 1915.

Another case involving the same wreck was tried at an earlier date and the decision of the trial court was affirmed by this court and later by the Supreme Court. Adams Express Company v. Darden, 286 F. 61;…