Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0131-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "KINKADE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 165
    No. 19085
    The J. Livingston & Company v. Margaret Streeter.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga County.
    225. CHARGE TO JURY — Where defendant fully admits negligence charged, not prejudicial error to instruct jury that if there was failure to explain why defendant was not negligent, it should find such defendant guilty as charged.
   KINKADE, J.

In an action for damages for an injury resulting from negligence, wherein the defendant has fully admitted the negligence charged, it is not error prejudicial to the defendant for the trial court to instruct the jury that if the defendant has failed to explain why his acts were not negligent, it will then be the duty of the jury to find the defendant guilty of negligence as charged. (Loomis v. Toledo Railways & Light Co., 107 Ohio St., 161, distinguished.)

Judgment affirmed.

Marshall, CJ., Matthias, Allen and Robinson, JJ., concur.