Case ID: ohio-cc-dec_30/html/0360-01.html
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Author: {"author": "JONES (E. H.), J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WORKMEN’S COMPENSATION.
    [Hamilton (1st) Court of Appeals,
    January 19, 1916.]
    Jones, Jones and Gorman, JJ.
    Ohio Trac. Co. v. Washington.
    Receipt of Award from State Fund not Bar Action Against Joint Tort-Feasor, Other Than the Employer.
    Receipt of money by an injured employe from the state liability board of awards by virtue of the workmen’s compensation law is not a bar to an action for damages against a person other than the employer whose negligence contributed to the injury.
    ERROR.
    
      Kinkead & Rogers, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Fulford, Shook, Wilby & Fricke, for defendant in error.
   JONES (E. H.), J.

The receipt of money by an injured employe from the state liability board of awards by virtue of the workmen’s compensation law is not a bar to an action for damages against a person other than the employer whose negligence contributed to the injury, there being no provision in said act making the remedy therein provided exclusive. The rule that settlement with one joint tort-feasor is a bar to recovery from the other has no •application and can not be invoked in such a case.

The presence of the piece of timber in the court room was within .the discretion of the trial judge, and, while the prominence given it during the trial may have been unusual, it was not error upon which a reviewing court could bottom a judgment of reversal.

We find no error in the proceedings in the superior court, and its judgment will be affirmed.

Judgment affirmed.

Jones (O, B.), and Gorman, JJ,, concur.