Cincinnati Traction Co. v. Lied
Ohio Court of Appeals
■Error: Court of Appeals for Hamilton county. The plaintiff below recovered a judgment for damages resulting from injuries while a passenger alighting from a car of defendant company. A reversal of that judgment is sought in these error proceedings. The plaintiff was the only witness who testified ■as to just how the accident occurred.
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■Error: Court of Appeals for Hamilton county. The plaintiff below recovered a judgment for damages resulting from injuries while a passenger alighting from a car of defendant company. A reversal of that judgment is sought in these error proceedings. The plaintiff was the only witness who testified ■as to just how the accident occurred. No operative of the defendant company was called, the only ■witness offered by it being a claim agent who ■was unable to testify in relation to the accident itself. Numerous witnesses on behalf of plaintiff testified as to his injury and results therefrom, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJones, P. J.
'Counsel for plaintiff in error insists that the trial court committed reversible error in refusing to make an additional charge to the jury in response to his request at the end of the general charge, defining the relation that plaintiff’s conviction of a felony bore to his credibility as a witness; and he relies chiefly upon this so-called error to secure a reversal of the judgment below.
While under the common law one who had been convicted of an infamous crime was not permitted to testify, that harsh rule has been abrogated, and under our code all persons are competent witnesses except…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Conkey v. CarpenterMichigan Supreme Court · 1895
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