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UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. O'BRIEN

No. 119.

161 U.S. 451 (1896)

16 S.Ct. 618

40 L.Ed. 766

UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, v. O'BRIEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1896.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John M. Thurston, (with whom was Mr. John F. Dillon on the brief,) for plaintiff in error.

Mr. H.E. Luthe and Mr. C.S. Thomas, for defendant in error, submitted on their brief.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The Circuit Court of Appeals held that as to the first question which the Circuit Court declined to allow to be put to Hall the answer would have been purely an inference based upon facts previously proven, and an inference which it was for the jury to draw from those facts, and therefore that it was properly excluded; that as to the second question addressed to that witness and...

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