Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0451-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BUCHWALTER, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 520
    CREW v. PENN. RY. CO.
    Ohio Appeals, 1st Dist., Hamilton Co.
    No. 2687.
    Decided March 1, 1926
    941. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE— Where plaintiff has reason to believe answer is a sham and untrue, the proper recourse is a motion to strike from files.
    Attorneys — Washington T. Porter and H. C. Bolsinger for Crew; Maxwell & Ramsey and G. B. Moorman for Penn. R. R. Co.; all of Cincinnati.
   BUCHWALTER, P. J.

S.T. Crew, the owner of a garage along the Pennsylvania R. R. Co. right of way brought this action to recover damages' of the railroad Co. for a fire allaged to have been caused by sparks emitted from a passing locomotive operated by the company.

The company filed answer, which, in the contention of Crew is merely a sham and un-, true. He made no motion to strike- such answer, but after an adverse verdict filed motion for a judgment on the pleadings. Hamilton Common Pleas overruled this motion and entered judgment on the verdict.

On proceedings in error, the Court of Appeals held:

1. Where plaintiff has reason to believe that answer is a sham and untrue, motion to strike from files is the proper recourse.

Judgment of Common Pleas affirmed.