Case Name: Marie DeGroodt, Executrix, v. Rad Skrbina, Admr., etc
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924-06-21
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 438
Docket Number: No. 18268
Parties: Marie DeGroodt, Executrix, v. Rad Skrbina, Admr., etc
Judges: Matthias, Day and Allen, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 438–438

Head Matter:
No. 418
No. 18268
Marie DeGroodt, Executrix, v. Rad Skrbina, Admr., etc
Error to the Court of Appeals of Mahoning County.
829. NEGLIGENCE — Contractor leaving an unsecured wagon in street, he was improving, liable for injury to child playing therewith.
480. EVIDENCE. Money offered by a defendant to a witness, competent evidence in chief, for plaintiff.

Opinion:
JONES, J.
1. For the purpose of preventing travel upon a newly constructed pavement, a contractor erected a barricade on the street, consisting in part of a two horse dump wagon which was permitted to be unsecured in a vicinity where children were accustomed to play therewith. This, together with the danger that might result to the children therefrom, was brought to the knowledge of such contractor. A child under six years of age was injured by the dump wagon so placed; and if, under the circumstances, reasonable care was not exercised by the contractor in leaving the dump wagon in a secure condition, thereby causing the death of such child, the contractor becomes liable.
2. An offer of money, made by a defendant to a witness for the purpose of influencing her attitude as such, is competent testimony against the defendant, and may be introduced bv the plaintiff as a part of his case.
Judgment affirmed.
Matthias, Day and Allen, JJ., concur.