Avery v. Nordyke & Marmon Co.

70 N.E. 888, 34 Ind. App. 541, 1904 Ind. App. LEXIS 62
CourtIndiana Court of Appeals
DecidedApril 28, 1904
DocketNo. 4,556
StatusPublished
Cited by27 cases

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Avery v. Nordyke & Marmon Co., 70 N.E. 888, 34 Ind. App. 541, 1904 Ind. App. LEXIS 62 (Ind. Ct. App. 1904).

Opinion

Roby, J.

Action to recover damages for personal injury. The amended complaint was in one paragraph. Its averments, summarized, are to the effect that the defendant corporation is a manufacturer of milling machinery in Indianapolis ; that on August 24, 1900, appellant was working for it in its factory, cleaning or smoothing the rough places off of mining machinery; that this was his chief duty, and that, to perform it, he was required by appellee to place said machinery or castings upon a truck which ran into said factory, and such truck was then run out of the building into appellee’s yard, where it was the custom and appellant’s duty to clean and smooth the castings while thereon; that on said day appellant was working at his usual and customary duties in cleaning and smoothing castings upon said truck in said yard, without negligence on his part; that appellee had negligently piled, or caused to be piled, near said track and appellant’s working place, pig-iron in ricks parallel with said track and near thereto; that said iron had been piled too near said track, too high, and in an unsubstantial and negligent manner, making said ricks dangerous and likely to fall, thereby rendering appellant’s working place dangerous; that appellant was engaged at his work as aforesaid, with his back to said ricks, and in said place as aforesaid, without fault on his part, and without knowledge [545]*545that they would fall on him and injure him, but said appellee knew, or ought to have known, that said ricks of pig-iron would fall on and injure him; that on said day appellant was working, cleaning castings, in his usual place, and that by the negligence of the- appellee the rick of pig-iron fell on him, to his damage, etc. The issue was formed by a general denial, trial and verdict for appellee, motion for new trial overruled, and judgment rendered on the verdict.

The error assigned is in overruling the motion for a new trial. In support of the assignment, appellant has argued questions relating to the admission of evidence, the' giving of certain instructions, and the refusal to give others requested.

1. Preliminary to the consideration of these, it must be determined whether the bill of exceptions containing the evidence and the bill of exceptions containing the instructions are in the record. . The bill purporting to contain the evidence was duly signed by the trial judge, duly filed, and certified to this court. The statement therein contained is in narrative form. We are not authorized to disregard it for that reason. Weakley v. Wolf (1897), 148 Ind. 208; Grisell v. Noel Bros., etc., Co. (1893), 9 Ind. App. 251.

2. The bill states that the evidence was introduced on the 29th day of January, 1902. The clerk’s transcript shows that the trial was had on-the 23d, 24th, 2Yth, 28th and 29th days of January, 1902. The statement of the bill of exceptions as- to dates controls where there is a discrepancy between it'and the record made by the clerk. Alley v. State, ex rel. (1881), 76 Ind. 94, 95; Indiana, etc., R. Co. v. Adams (1887), 112 Ind. 302, 303; Ewbank’s Manual, §34.

3. The evidence, as incorporated in the bill, does not purport to have been transcribed by the official reporter. It is not necessary that it should be so transcribed. Adams v. State (1901), 156 Ind. 596-600; Tombaugh v. Grogg (1901), 156 Ind. 355-358.

[546]*5464. A part of the testimony of one witness is set out in the bill as follows: “I did not notice any difference between that rick and others, in the mode of piling, etc.” It is argued that this shows affirmatively that all of the evidence is not in the record. The answer purports to be that of the witness, and the abbreviation must be treated as having been used by him. The bill recites: “This was all the evidence given in the case.” It does not on its face show that other evidence was introduced, and it is therefore sufficient. Ewbank’s Manual, §34, p. 48.

5. Appellee filed written objections to the bill of exceptions before it was signed and filed, giving therein specific reasons, supported by affidavit, why, in its opinion, the bill should not be authenticated. Such objections were overruled, and is shown by the bill of exceptions presented by appellee. What shall be contained in the bill is a matter exclusively for, the trial judge to determine. Jelley v. Roberts (1875), 50 Ind. 1. The rulings upon the various objections made as aforesaid do not authorize this court to disregard the bill as settled.

6. Appellant, by precipe; directed the clerk to make out a transcript for appellee; No specific directions as to any particular part of the record were given, and it thereby became the duty of the clerk to make out and deliver or transmit a complete transcript. §661 Burns 1901, §649 R. S. 1881; Barnes v. Pelham (1897), 18 Ind. App. 166-168. The original bill of exceptions containing the evidence constitutes and is considered a part of the transcript. Acts 1903, p. 338, §7. The certificate of the clerk was in due and regular form. Acts 1903, supra.

7. The instructions having been incorporated in the bill of exceptions, it was not necessary for the trial judge to sign marginal exceptions thereon. Moore v. Combs (1900), 24 Ind. App. 464, cited and relied upon by appellee, does not control. Ayres v. Blevins (1901), 28 Ind. App. 101. The bills of exceptions are properly a part of the record.

[547]*547The appellant, when injured, was engaged in cleaning a casting which was on a truck standing in the usual and proper place. He received his orders from one Linneman, boss of the department in which he was employed. Appellee’s employes, working under the direction of the foreman of the “piling gang” — a distinct department of its business ■ — -on the day before had been piling pig-iron in ricks twenty-eight inches south of and along the track upon which said truck and castings stood at the time of the accident complained of. On the morning of the accident, such work was resumed. Appellant was not subject to the orders of the boss of said “piling gang.” The separate pieces of pig-iron so piled were from six inches to two and one-half feet long, and three or four inches in diameter, and were rough on the sides and ends. The particular rick that fell upon appellant was piled to a height of from seven to eight feet. It had just been completed, and a new one begun, when it fell. Properly piled, the rick would have been safe, and the fact that this one fell indicated that it was not piled right. There was a conflict in the evidence relative to the foreman’s knowledge that it was dangerous.

8. A witness called by appellant, who was one of the gang that piled the iron, testified that the rick looked dangerous, and quivered whenever a piece of iron was thrown upon it, and that thirty minutes before it fell he told the foreman in charge that the pile looked dangerous. On cross-examination he was asked if he said anything to the men he was working with about the pile looking dangerous.

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