Case Name: Emil Gobrecht v. Henry Sicking
Court: Hamilton Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1894
Citations: 9 Ohio Cir. Dec. 851
Docket Number: 
Parties: Emil Gobrecht v. Henry Sicking.
Judges: King, Haynes and Parker, JJ. (Of the Sixth Circuit, sitting in Hamilton County.)
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Decisions
Volume: 9
Pages: 851–851

Head Matter:
EVIDENCE — NEGLIGENCE.
[Hamilton Circuit Court.]
King, Haynes and Parker, JJ. (Of the Sixth Circuit, sitting in Hamilton County.)
Emil Gobrecht v. Henry Sicking.
1. Hearsay Evidence.
In action against the owner of a runaway horse evidence of a third person that one of defendants employees, in defendants absence, said the horse had run away before and “ the boss knew it ” is incompetent.
Error to Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county.
A. H. Bode, for plaintiff in error.
Wm. Littleford, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
A horse belonging to the plaintiff in error, while in charge of ah employee, ran away and collided with a horse and carriage belonging to the defendant in error, on account of which he obtained in the court below a judgment for $100 damages.
Held: 1. It was error in the court to admit the evidence of the witness, Beebe, to the effect that witness, Brokamp, told him in the absence of plaintiff in error that the horse had run away before, and that " the boss (Gobrecht) knew it."
2. The evidence does not show or tend to show any actionable negligence on the part of plaintiff in error or his servant, Brokamp, in the management of the horse, causing or contributing to cause the injury of which defendant in error complains.
On these two grounds the judgment of the court of common pleas is reversed, and the case is remanded for a new trial.