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‘ February F, 1915.
Hon. 3. 7?. “.3"8.1'i'i€271.d,
Biotriot Attorney, 3 i X R E 00.,
Lomioviiie, Kentucky. ;
Alboyt 003193 v. L & 3 Ry.Cw.,&e.,
Butcher Circuit Court. _ -
Dear ﬁir:

The vnrﬁict of Q12,000.Q9 in favor of the plaintiif in the
above case was returned by the jury about 6 o’clock P.M., on Friﬁay
evening, February 1th, 1915, and marl; 0n the following morning, I
téleohonea l. 3. Sioldw, local agont at Rh tagbuyg, ﬁe Wire you the

‘ revnlt of the trial. I got your mosrage,etaﬁing that you had loarnoﬁ
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the revolt of the trial from the neampaper, shortiy alter noon on
Saturday, the ﬁth inotﬁnt, uné was then iniorﬂcd by XI. Liolés than
he had been unable to ﬁrmwamét my me Page to you oozoro Escoiving
your narumgc to me.
I now unﬂartnko to give you n oriéf account of tho trial
anﬂ its rasult.

To begin with‘ tho vorﬂiat was Gisaowointing but not our—
nrising. Juﬁﬁo Jutlor is about the boot Iawyar on the bonch that
wa have to ﬁeal with in any circuit court South of hinehestor, but he
has a bad habiﬁ of practicing in the case, an& talking too nook, and
a very ﬁooidoé proponmity for halping out the plaintiff or hiv blun-
dorinq attorneys. Jot for thiw hnhit on tho part of Judge Jutler,
it 1% certain ﬁhnt we should have won this coma Var: handily on a ’
paramptory inwtrnction to finﬁ :or ﬁhn dnfandants, eithar at {he close
of plaintiff's tomtimdny or at the close of tho whole cage. But when
aha attornays for tho plﬁintiyg got into Sqrioua trouble mné were

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floundering about for some way to get out, Jw’ige Butler himself
j531~o:'.;;atly Game to tho 1“.)950118. In 11:. other way could the situation
have 1351011 17135212131361, for no 0.11:1: off 1111“: four l:,n‘:y-:2:'S 1':‘i})]"t}5§01“.t111£ Copley
had. EHBHESC enoug‘gh to 1mow 117111.311: to (10 in their prec’ficsz.zaont. In many
ways, like Judgo 31.2310“: and, therefore, what I say about him is;
not the; i’a.'"j_”s_i:‘;1“ 0:11;" of t:;1::1;]"u:11?r?l "tiff: court“ 1111911 one loses
11:3 armada.

That you may 13:21:»? 121:"= 523111.211”: 1111.1 1 MTV" to 12.220111, the
:‘:111252(13’.11,3:;3 and tha trial, 1 an 21131432114; "3()‘:ii.‘§:§ of 2:13.71. ftho gamers;

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1:13;; 130:1(1 110312-61 .

‘.‘.ithout 93151135531711; 12.11, I th} :1]: I car: :5:-:,:; i 210V:‘;I‘ iacrsd a. more
unprozufuzing jury than the 01.1112 11:5: had. on this; trial. It was: composed,
with but two 01: three 0 <:,:;;:‘1;3'.-.;:1:3, of lot of ignorant youngsters.

“Lhe 1:1-Jo 1:103:31; um”: beast imfozmeci 1211-211 0;; the:- jury l':-:.‘L'11[:~:“:(€ 1;: o unite

_ :‘:: tho V‘tr'r’fjiﬂl‘ﬁ, 1311th 22:11: only 8115:1126 Lug; L 21;; 1:52:13 of ﬁlm: jury.

I 11.-33w no; 5.17221. 71:222.:3110 <3. for p}hJ Martha-3:" the 5.5.? suiting Jurors
:.‘:implgr r13. Hagjramd :,:-.:‘. to the s-ar-aount 01' the 1:21-13;th or \tzhw‘thm: their
r€a.f1.“:15'.rf1, 25:18: hit-,rtm‘i upon ’.j‘v'w {3:32:11}? that th:.-; nluinthi', Conley, was
not 011151111011 to 1- movu‘ :.:; all. 1" 11mm 21:13:52 ;.11'. “:‘-{51.53 1;. harvio to
f).f"'iﬁ:'[fj-“,in 11:“ fYCJCS soon :1 :‘qi : a:;Lt‘1.::: 1.1:.

'- _f'; 1.11»: m;- mu»; 1:11:31. 1111;: 311;; 1,711,”: 11:;-11:1: ‘Chs- average,
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211::1()S:'zn’. This: :‘:-anion, 1 311121;} 111.11 :::uﬂuin ‘11 introduced
the Circuit Clerk and certain (.11-Wars o1] '1‘-11o fﬁic;13;~;r 125.314.1151; ilrmrt in
ammotz't of it, and, wailo the question 153 :-:<3'.a22“<.“4135‘.t digficgon‘; from that

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decided by the Court of Appoalo in the recent caoo of Mahan Jollioo
’Coal Company V. Bird, 157 Ky. 69? (decided Jonunry l2, lQlB,) and the
cases therein citod, I think the underlying principle is Subotuntially
tho Same. In other words, I do not think there was a oubotnntiol
by the court i
oomplianaehwitn the Statute in the formation of this particular jury
panol.

’ Judge Butler is much better acquainted with the rules of ‘
evidence than was his predecessor, Juﬂge Roberson, and, bonus, upon
frequent ohjootiono by us, much of tho inoompotont nnﬂ irrelevant
toStimony which had boon admitted by Juana Loheroon on the former -
trial in Hay, 1015, was cxoluéod from the jury by Judge Butlor,
with only occasional sling here and thoro. In connoquonco of this,
the introduction oi towti any on the recent trial was completed in

three days, whereas, on tho first trial, it oonoumoﬁ over a week.
There will not be found very many serious errors in the rulings of
the court on the ovidonoo.

it tho oonolunion of the plaintiff‘s testimony, we entered

a motion for a poromptory instruction, Which we were prepared to
uphold with numerous authorities, and, with tho ntﬂost confidence of
convincing the conit that the motion Should ho grantod. To our
consternation, hOWovor, Judge ﬁutlor summarily GVorrulod the motion,

. oven declining to hour any argument or to considor any authorities
prosonted by our wide. Ho did this, saying that ho would ”roserva
the question”. I called his nttontion to the foot that this was not
fair to tho dofondnnt, in View of the rule which seems later to have
boon adogtod by tho Court of Appoalo to the effect that whsn a motion
for u poronptory instruction is renewed at tho closo'of i case, the
party objecting to the motion 13 entitled to have the benefit of the
testimony elicited from his odvorsaries' witnesses, if it be favorable,

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I as tell as the benefit of the testimony of his own witnesSos. (See,
for example, Jolson v. Black l’iamond mining Co.,&c., 167 Ky. 5?G,
GFO~681}. 'Judge Butler, homever, seemed to miss the point and it
did us no good to reason with him.

The defendants then proceeded with the introduction of
their proof and, after same was completed, and two witnesses had been .
introduced by the plaintiff in rebuttal, and the case entirely closed,
we again made our motion for a peremptory and asked the court to hear
us at length on the motion. This he again declined to do, saying
that his mind was made up and it would be useless for us to take
up the time of the court in making an argument or reading authorities.
Feeling sure that the pleadings of the plaintiff, regardless of the
evidence, did not give him any rirht of recovery, we pocketed our
discontent and submitted to the court‘s’ruling.

Khan Judge Butler came to write the instructions in the case,
however, being (as I hays stated) a pretty good lawyer, he found that
this was a matter of no little difficulty and, as his habit is, began
to talk at great length about the probable insufficiency of the
pleadings and what was, in his judgment, necessary to the staten~nt of
a good cause of activn. At the same time, he requested the attorneys
on moth siCao, particularly the attorneys for the defendants, to

such

submitﬂinotructious as the parties wished to offer. The case was
closed and our motion for a peremgtory instruction overruled for a
second time early in the afternoon of Thursday, February 3rd, and
Judge dutler then zmnounced that he wanted to instruct the jury and
have the arguments finished that same afternoon or evening. When

he got down to work on the instructions, hounVor, ha found that it
was by no means an easy matter to state the law of the casa under the
pleadings as they then stood and he took until 6 o‘clock or later to

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prepare a rough draft of the instructions, which he thought Should
be given the jury. When we all gothorcd in the court room,short1y
wftar 6 E.H., Judge Butler than engaged in a lengthy diSquisition
on the pleadingo and soon gave tho aﬁtornoys for tho ylainti;f to
understand that tho court was in serious doubt ac to whether the
plaintiff had Btotod A good cauoo of action. Ho told them, moraovcr,
why he did not think so, to~wit2 that,in a cage of thio oharvotcr,
fgit wag doubtful whothc: the plaintiff could rcoovor unlogs he could ’
riEofL'Jxago onﬂ nhow that ho had been wiifully out off the train. After
£ about an hour of théﬁ, ho ﬁnggcst‘d that IE; oaoo be oﬁjournod over
night and all partinﬁ work on tho inotructions and he would odgourn
V the jury and dofor the inotruotiono nnﬂ argumwnt until Friday morning.
This woo dono. On Thursday night, Judge Bearing came to mo and
hmnﬂnd no a carbon copy of a ﬂoonnd Axonﬁod ?ctitioni which he an»
nonnceﬁ would he o:fored on the following morning. A oooy of ﬁhis
omonﬂnont iw horowith oncloood one Spooks for itsolf. It showy a “
dolihoraﬁe though belated Eurooac on the tort of tho plaintiff to
”mend his holts” on the plcaﬁiugg for, as I understand the proof
in the case, from hoginning to cod, the pleading in no Renae "con-
formo to the proof.“ I told Juﬂgo Bearing thot we would, of oouroo,
object to thn filing of the amendment. Thio We did on Friday morn-
ing, but the court hold thqt it was within his éisorction to hermit
the amondnont to ho filcd anﬂ, accordingly, allowed it to he filed
over our objection, to whinh ruling we excepted. I then oaiﬂ to the
court that we dosirco timo in which to orepnro a motion and affidavits
to set aoido the smearing of tho jxry uni oontinuc the canoe to a fu—
ture term, in View of the entire change in the plaintiff’s claim,
- brought about by the filing of this last amonémont. He courteoucly

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gave us time and we proporod the vorified motion, of which a cepy
in herewith oneloood. Tho court ovorruloo thio motion an& we rooerod
DUI GEGOPtiOH- If ﬁhore be one error in the record more flagrant "7
than onothor, I fool sure that the court committed a fatal orror in }
not sustaining our motion, and I base our hope for a rovorsal of the i 74
juﬂgmonﬁ as much upon thio oxror no upon any other orror committed a
during the progresg of the trial. ?1euoo write me if you do not thing
the some. . f
Coming to ﬁho inotruoﬁions, o0pios of which are herewith
eooloaod, tho court doolinod to give any of the inotructions oxforod
by the plaintiff and gave all of the instructions oiierod by the de-
fendant except the iirot one and even gave the oubstonoo of that.
ﬂora i3 whore I think 1 undo a blunder. Instead of practicing the
case, at this otogo oi it, to lose, I pracﬁicod it to win. I loot
sight, for tho moment, of the utterly hepolooo oopoot of the jury
and, encouraged by tho diSagreemant which rooultod on tho first trial,
I,porhapa, offorod more low tnon i ohoulo. I ohould have known hat~
tor, iOr I ha& had enough oxporionoe of Juogo outler in other coseo
to KﬂOW that he would ﬁrobaoly give to tho jury ovary instruction
Offorod 03 the deionoonto. how:vor, in odoition to his refusal to
give tho first instruction oifnroo by the éefnnognto, I think he erred
in woth hio Iixnc and Second inmtruatioos to the jury, (thooo instruc—
tions being marked ”A” on@ “3”.) Whoa Judgo ﬂooring, by tho aid of
the court, finally got hio true bearings, ho unoortook to rely for the
law of the case on the éooioion oi the Douit of Anoeals by Judge
hooson in the case of Zouiovillo a daotorn H E Co. v. Moﬂolly, 105
5.W. 124. in tho moonlly coon, as you will recall, the uourt of Appeals
. apprOVod an instruction ~ “Tuot, i£)whilo the plaintiff was on the
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, was not warranted by the Proof end that the verdict should have been,f/
set aside because flagrantly against the overwhelming Weight of the
evidence. I think this,too,conetitutos one of our main grounds for f
asking and securing a reversal.

Immediately after the verdict came in, we entered a motion
’for a judgment 323 obetante verezdioto. This was done ae a matter of
precaution, although, in striotnees, I doubt Whether the motion was
well taken. In arguing the motion, 1 took the poeition with the court
that the plaintiff's petition, as twice ameueed, construed most strong—
ly against the pleader, amounted to no more than a claim that he had been
accidentally jostled off the train, aﬂﬁ that under such etete of the
pleadings the pleintiii was not entitleﬂ to a Verdict, but juagment
should be renﬁered in favor of the defendant. If you will carefully
examine and analyze the pleadings, I believe you will come to much
the‘same conclusion, to-wit: that the petition unﬂ first and second
amended petitions, taken altogether, Virtuall; allege that the fall
of the plaintiff from the train uni the injuries received in eohee—
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quenco were the result of an unavoidable casualty or uceidout. J K ‘
As you will discover from the enclosures, after the ﬁefcnd— '
ants' motion to get aside the Steering oi the jury,eto. hue been over~
ruled, we filed our second MlCﬁdﬁd answer, in four paragraphe, one of
which undertook to pleaﬁ the one year statute of limitetione. To this
paragraph, the court sustained a geHAIol demurrer. Under the liberal
practice tolerated by the Court of Appeals, it may be that this plea
wee not available to us, but I thought it best to interpose it as e
matter of precaution.
l have not had an ooportunity to run down the eaees, but I
am strongly inclined to believe that the Verdict of $12,000.00 in this
case will be set asiie by the Court of A peels upon the ground that

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same wag excesoive, if it be unable to find any other ground upon
which to TQVGISG this judgment. Whataver the appellate court may E
have done in the case of aocidonts to employees or passengers, I feel i
sure that it will not uphold a verdict for so large a Sum in favor of E
a self~oonfoosod trospaseer. ;
As you will discover from one of the onelosurog, in running
through the papers during the sitting of tho court on Saturday morn-
ing, February 5th, I accidently disoovored a Short affidavit in the
hand*writing of Judge E. G. hearing, which hnﬂ_appnrontly been filed
in omen court on Friday, Fouruury 4th, but which had never been brought
.
directly to my attcntion or to the knowledge of any of my associates
in the case. I immediately inquired how the affiiavit got into the
record, gut got Very little satisfaction on that point. I then asknd
the court for an opportunity to file my own affidavit traversing the
aifiéuvit thus apparantly filod by Judge Bearing. At the time, I ﬁid
not clearly understand it, but felt sure that some sort of Shabby
trick had boon played upon us by the other Side. I prepared and filed,
by leave of court, a counter-affidavit. of which a copy is herewith
enclosed, nnﬂ this was made a part of the record. he I rode from
Whitasburg to Jackson, luto ﬁaturday afternoon, I hnoponod to remember
that when,-on Eridag morning, the plaintiff had come forward and ten—
dorod in oven court his 5 00nd amended petition, that Judge Butler, ‘
aftor glancing over it, Snid"thoro is no showing in this pleading of
why it was not tendorod earlier? To this remark of the court, the
attorneys on the other sife made no reaponso whatever and said nothing
at the time about any affidavit of Judge Doaringﬁs or any other show-
ing they had made or pronosod to make in explanation of their tardi- .
nose in tonﬁoring the pleading. I am now rotisfied that While We

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were out preparing our motion and affidavit to not aside the .
swearing of the jury, Judge Bearing got busy ouﬁ wrote out tho affi-
ﬁovit in question and then hoﬂ it put on the record in such way &8
to inﬁioato that the affidavit was produced and filed immediately
before tho tindoring of tho second amended petition. Uniortunmtoly,
this situation is not undo clan: by my affiﬂavit and will not ayoear
in tho record, but I know that this is oxactly the way the thing hapw
ponod. After all, it does not numunt to Vory much, nut serves to
illustrate the aort of practice we oro to againﬁt in that soction of
the State.
I oeiiove the above givom yet a fairly comprohonsivo syn-
cpai: of the thingﬁ of importance thich trans;irad ﬂuring the trial.
You ale no éouot faniiiar with tho cases, out, :03 your convenience,
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