Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0372-02.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. 478
    CINCINNATI TRAC. CO. v. KLINKENBERG, Adrx.
    Ohio Appeals, 1st Dist., Hamilton Co.
    No. 2742.
    Decided Feb. 8, 1926.
    480. EVIDENCE — In action for wrongful death, earning power admissible to prove amount of damages.
    Attorneys — Leo. J. Brumleve, Jr., for Company; Galvin & Bauer and B. H. Long for Klinkenberg; all of Cincinnati.
   BUCHWALTER, P. J.

This action was for wrongful death of O. G. Klinkenberg. Ella Klinkenberg, administratrix of his estate, alleged that his death was occasioned solely thru the negligence of an employe of the Cincinnati Traction Company.

Judgment was rendered in Hamilton Common Pleas Court in favor of the estate and the Company prosecuted error on the ground that the trial court improperly admitted in evidence the proof of the gross earnings and profits of the business conducted by the decedent. The Court of Appeals held:

Earning power of decedent is properly admitted in evidence to approximate the amount of damages when such earnings are not derived from money invested.

Judgment affirmed.