Case ID: ohio-law-abs_1/html/0734-01.html
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Author: {"author": "RICHARDS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 751
    TAYLOR v. BAUMAN
    Ohio Appeals, 6th District. Erie County
    No. 184.
    Decided Sept. 26, 1923
    This opinion has not been published except in Abstract.
    166. ERROR.,
    Where verdict is against, weight of evidence, case, must be remanded.
    Attorneys — J. F. Hertlein ,and E. H. Peeke, for Taylor; W. L. Fiesinger for Bauman,
   RICHARDS, J.

Epitomized Opinion

Bauman was struck by an automobile while crossing the street in the village of Castalia and severely injured. The evidence disclosed that Taylor was driving his machine from Sandusky to Lima and at the time of the accident was passing through Cas-talia. Many machines were parked along both’ sides of the street, which obstructed the plaintiff’s view in crossing from one side of the street to the other. The accident did not occur at a cross-walk and there was nothing in the record to show whether Bauman looked before stepping out from behind the machines. The evidence was in conflict as to the speed which Taylor was traveling at the time he struck Bauman. The defendant’s automobile was only a few feet away at the time Bauman stepped into the highway. The jur" returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $3,000, whereupon error was prosecuted to the Court of Appeals. In reversing the judgment, it was held:

1. As the verdict and ’udgment were contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence the case must be reversed and remanded for re-trial.