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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 282
    SHAPIRO v. WINDOW SHADE ADJUSTER CO.
    No. 20308.
    Supreme Court
    On Mot. to cert.
    Dock. Feb. 5, 1927,
    5 Abs. 90.
    1024. RES GESTAE — Are statements made by truck driver while taking injured party to hospital, though made sometime after accident admissible as part of res gestae?
    Attorneys — Moulinier, Bettman & Hunt for Shapiro; Harmon, Colston, Goldsmith & Hoad-ley xor Company; all of Cincinnati.
   Shapiro contends in the Supreme Court that, statement made by truck driver, who- had injured him, made some ten minutes after the accident but while he was taking him to hospital are part of res gestae and admissible and tnat a boy of fifteen should be allowed to testify exactly as to what he thought speed of car was.

Note — Motion to certify overruled, 5 Abs. 199.