Case ID: ohio-cc-dec_20/html/0444-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SMITH, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NEGLIGENCE — RAILROADS.
    [Hamilton (1st) Circuit Court,
    June 29, 1907.]
    Swing, Giffen and Smith, JJ.
    Cincinnati, L. & N. Ry. et al. v. Anthony J. Bokenkotter, Admr.
    Station Agent Guilty of Conteibutoby Negligence in Cbossing a Railway Tback without Looking.
    A station agent familiar with, the location of railway tracks who attempts to cross without looking for an approaching train, which might have been seen two thousand feet away, and is struck by it, is guilty of contributory negligence.
    Error to Hamilton common pleas.
    W. W. Ramsey, for plaintiffs in error.
    E. M. Ballard, for defendant in error.
   SMITH, J.

There is error in the record of the trial below in that the court overruled the motions of the plaintiffs in error at the close of the testimony offered by the defendant in error to direct the jury to return a verdict, in their behalf.

The testimony clearly shows the deceased to have been guilty of contributory negligence. He was employed as station agent at Hopkins avenue station. He crossed the south-bound track to the north-bound track, and in attempting to return did not look to see or pay any attention as to whether a train was approaching; and yet the track was straight for two thousand feet in the direction from which the train approached, and it could have been easily discerned.

Judgment reversed.

Swing and Giffen, JJ., concur.