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20 Ohio C.C. Dec. 824

Iliff v. Cavey

Hamilton Circuit Court

Decided May 23, 1908

Hamilton Circuit Court · decided 1908-05-23

<p>MASTER AND SERVANT.</p> <p>Swing, Giffen and Smith, JJ.</p> <p>Eisk Assumed by Servant Disregarding Warning as Master having Ordered:</p> <p>A servant away from the place where he is at work, giving as the reason therefor that he is afraid a wall will fall on him, and the servant disregards the order and continues his work without changing his position, and the wall falls and he is killed, an action for damages for wrongful death against the master should he taken from the jury on the ground that the risk was assumed.</p>

Decided 1908-05-23

¶1*825BeheariNG.

¶2Our conclusion, after a careful consideration of tbe whole testimony, iipon a motion for a rehearing, is that there is no testimony tending to prove that the deceased had no knowledge of the dangerous. condition of the brick wall; but on the contrary it does appeal that he-was warned by the defendants in ample time to avoid injury.

¶3The witness, Lee, was not, and could not have been present when the warning was given, and does not pretend that the defendant, Charles; B. Iliff, while standing on the sidewalk, saw or was looking at the-deceased while in a place of peril after the warning was given.

¶4We are constrained, therefore, to overrule the motion for a rehearing, and to adhere to our former decision.

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