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Author: {"author": "VICKERY, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 153
    MARQUARD v. MOORE
    Ohio Court of Appeals, Cuyahoga County
    No. 4079,
    Jan. 22, 1923
    PERSONAL INJURY — Obstruction of vision as proximate cause of — Violation of ordinance giving rise to action for.
    Error to Common Pleas Court
    Attorneys — Howell, Roberts and Duncan, for Mar-quard; I. Grohs and C. F. Schuler, for Moore.
   EPITOMIZED OPINION

VICKERY, J.:

Evelyn Marquard, while crossing a street in Cleveland, was struck by an automobile, through no fault of the driver, and injured. Moore is the owner of an ice wagon which, in violation • of two city ordinances, was parked on the wrong side of the street and nearer than 15 feet to the street intersection. Marquard, immediately after passing ■around the ice wagon, which, it is claimed, obstructed her view of the street, was struck by the machine. Held:

1. The obstruction of one’s sight cannot be said to be the proximate cause of an accident occurring after the person has passed around the obstruction,

2. Violation of city ordinances or of statutes, give rise to actions only in favor of parties for whose benefit the ordinance was enacted.