Case Name: The Ohio Traction Co. v. Washington
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1916-01-19
Citations: 28 Ohio C.A. 382
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Ohio Traction Co. v. Washington.
Judges: Jones (Oliver B.), J., and Gorman, J., concur.
Reporter: Ohio Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 382–383

Head Matter:
COMPENSATION TO INJURED EMPLOYEE.
Court of Appeals for Hamilton County.
The Ohio Traction Co. v. Washington.
Decided, January 19, 1916.
Workmen’s Compensation — Receipt of Award from the State Fund— Not a Bar to an Action Against a Joint Tort-Feasor, Other Than¡ the Employer.
The receipt of money by an injured employee 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.
Kinkead & Rogers, for plaintiff in error.
Fulford, Shook, Witty & Fricke, contra.

Opinion:
Jones (E. H.), J.
The receipt of money by an injured employee 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 pf 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 (Oliver B.), J., and Gorman, J., concur.