Published in the Newark Advocate, January 7, 1947.
Bernard Hoovler, After 13 Years in Hospital, Is Dead
Funeral services were held in Mt. Vernon this afternoon for Bernard B. Hoovler, 39, "dean" of the hospital patients in Mercy hospital, Mt. Vernon, who was injured Oct. 16, 1933, in an automobile accident on the county line road between Homer and Lock.
In the accident Hoovler suffered a broken back and a severed spinal cord, resulting in paralysis from his waist down. He had been a patient in the hospital since the night of the accident. His death occurred Sunday morning.
Hoovler was plaintiff in one of the most interesting law suits in Licking county as a result of the accident. He asked damages for his injuries.
The case was tried before a Fairfield county jury in the local court room, with the late Judge Frank Acton of Lancaster presiding. Hoovler was in court on a stretcher. An interesting exhibit in the suit was a scale model of the bridge on the county line road where the accident occurred. On agreement between Knox and Licking counties, the bridge was to be maintained by Licking county.
On the night of the accident two cars left a dance hall in the vicinity. One was occupied by Hoovler and companions. His car followed the other car, which struck a bridge girder, causing the bridge to sag in the middle.
When Hoovler's car entered the bridge at high speed, it was hurled into the air, its spare wheel on a rack on the rear caught in the telephone wires along the road. The car landed in a field some distance from the bridge exit.
In his suit Hoovler claimed damages because the county neglected to place a barrier at the bridge following the first accident. At the conclusion of the plantiff's case. Hoovler's counsel moved for a directed verdict for their client. The defense joined in the motion for a directed verdict but asked that Hoovler be denied damages.
The court ruled Hoovler was not entitled to damages, that the driver of his car was negligent in speeding, and that there was no negligence on the part of Licking county, since only a few minutes elapsed between the first and the second accident. A verdict of dismissal was given.
Bernard Hoovler, After 13 Years in Hospital, Is Dead
Funeral services were held in Mt. Vernon this afternoon for Bernard B. Hoovler, 39, "dean" of the hospital patients in Mercy hospital, Mt. Vernon, who was injured Oct. 16, 1933, in an automobile accident on the county line road between Homer and Lock.
In the accident Hoovler suffered a broken back and a severed spinal cord, resulting in paralysis from his waist down. He had been a patient in the hospital since the night of the accident. His death occurred Sunday morning.
Hoovler was plaintiff in one of the most interesting law suits in Licking county as a result of the accident. He asked damages for his injuries.
The case was tried before a Fairfield county jury in the local court room, with the late Judge Frank Acton of Lancaster presiding. Hoovler was in court on a stretcher. An interesting exhibit in the suit was a scale model of the bridge on the county line road where the accident occurred. On agreement between Knox and Licking counties, the bridge was to be maintained by Licking county.
On the night of the accident two cars left a dance hall in the vicinity. One was occupied by Hoovler and companions. His car followed the other car, which struck a bridge girder, causing the bridge to sag in the middle.
When Hoovler's car entered the bridge at high speed, it was hurled into the air, its spare wheel on a rack on the rear caught in the telephone wires along the road. The car landed in a field some distance from the bridge exit.
In his suit Hoovler claimed damages because the county neglected to place a barrier at the bridge following the first accident. At the conclusion of the plantiff's case. Hoovler's counsel moved for a directed verdict for their client. The defense joined in the motion for a directed verdict but asked that Hoovler be denied damages.
The court ruled Hoovler was not entitled to damages, that the driver of his car was negligent in speeding, and that there was no negligence on the part of Licking county, since only a few minutes elapsed between the first and the second accident. A verdict of dismissal was given.
Published in the Newark Advocate, January 7, 1947.
Bernard Hoovler, After 13 Years in Hospital, Is Dead
Funeral services were held in Mt. Vernon this afternoon for Bernard B. Hoovler, 39, "dean" of the hospital patients in Mercy hospital, Mt. Vernon, who was injured Oct. 16, 1933, in an automobile accident on the county line road between Homer and Lock.
In the accident Hoovler suffered a broken back and a severed spinal cord, resulting in paralysis from his waist down. He had been a patient in the hospital since the night of the accident. His death occurred Sunday morning.
Hoovler was plaintiff in one of the most interesting law suits in Licking county as a result of the accident. He asked damages for his injuries.
The case was tried before a Fairfield county jury in the local court room, with the late Judge Frank Acton of Lancaster presiding. Hoovler was in court on a stretcher. An interesting exhibit in the suit was a scale model of the bridge on the county line road where the accident occurred. On agreement between Knox and Licking counties, the bridge was to be maintained by Licking county.
On the night of the accident two cars left a dance hall in the vicinity. One was occupied by Hoovler and companions. His car followed the other car, which struck a bridge girder, causing the bridge to sag in the middle.
When Hoovler's car entered the bridge at high speed, it was hurled into the air, its spare wheel on a rack on the rear caught in the telephone wires along the road. The car landed in a field some distance from the bridge exit.
In his suit Hoovler claimed damages because the county neglected to place a barrier at the bridge following the first accident. At the conclusion of the plantiff's case. Hoovler's counsel moved for a directed verdict for their client. The defense joined in the motion for a directed verdict but asked that Hoovler be denied damages.
The court ruled Hoovler was not entitled to damages, that the driver of his car was negligent in speeding, and that there was no negligence on the part of Licking county, since only a few minutes elapsed between the first and the second accident. A verdict of dismissal was given.
Bernard Hoovler, After 13 Years in Hospital, Is Dead
Funeral services were held in Mt. Vernon this afternoon for Bernard B. Hoovler, 39, "dean" of the hospital patients in Mercy hospital, Mt. Vernon, who was injured Oct. 16, 1933, in an automobile accident on the county line road between Homer and Lock.
In the accident Hoovler suffered a broken back and a severed spinal cord, resulting in paralysis from his waist down. He had been a patient in the hospital since the night of the accident. His death occurred Sunday morning.
Hoovler was plaintiff in one of the most interesting law suits in Licking county as a result of the accident. He asked damages for his injuries.
The case was tried before a Fairfield county jury in the local court room, with the late Judge Frank Acton of Lancaster presiding. Hoovler was in court on a stretcher. An interesting exhibit in the suit was a scale model of the bridge on the county line road where the accident occurred. On agreement between Knox and Licking counties, the bridge was to be maintained by Licking county.
On the night of the accident two cars left a dance hall in the vicinity. One was occupied by Hoovler and companions. His car followed the other car, which struck a bridge girder, causing the bridge to sag in the middle.
When Hoovler's car entered the bridge at high speed, it was hurled into the air, its spare wheel on a rack on the rear caught in the telephone wires along the road. The car landed in a field some distance from the bridge exit.
In his suit Hoovler claimed damages because the county neglected to place a barrier at the bridge following the first accident. At the conclusion of the plantiff's case. Hoovler's counsel moved for a directed verdict for their client. The defense joined in the motion for a directed verdict but asked that Hoovler be denied damages.
The court ruled Hoovler was not entitled to damages, that the driver of his car was negligent in speeding, and that there was no negligence on the part of Licking county, since only a few minutes elapsed between the first and the second accident. A verdict of dismissal was given.
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