Case ID: ohio-law-abs_6/html/0407-02.html
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Author: {"author": "KUNKLE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DORAN v. BETHARDS
    Ohio Appeals, 2nd Dist., Clark Co.
    Martin & Corry, Sprinfield and Allaman, Funkhouser & Murr, Dayton, for Doran.
    Geo. W. Tehan and Harry A. Brenner, Springfield, for Bethards.
    118. AUTOMOBILES — 396 Directed Verdict —1053 Roads & Highways — 301 Contributory Negligence.
    1. Whether truck, which stops in night season, upon improved portion of highway, is parked on improved highway, is question for jury.
    2. Contributory negligence of driver of automobile approaching such truck, ordinarily question for jury.
    3. Testimony tending to show care of driver of automobile, which collided with such truck, presence of fog on road, and that truck was parked upon highway without lights; held sufficient to warrant refusal to direct verdict for truck owner.
   KUNKLE, J.

1. When a truck, in the night season, stops upon the _ improved portion of the highway, the question as to whether such truck was parked off the improved portion of the highway is a question for the jury to determine under all of the evidence and circumstances of the case.

2. The question of the contributory negligence of the owner and driver of an automobile approaching such truck in the night season is ordinarily a question for the jury.

3. The trial court was justified in refusing to instruct a verdict for the defendant in a case where there was testimony tending to show that at the time of collision with a truck the owner and driver of an automobile was driving at a slow rate of speed; that the lights on his automobile were burning brightly; that he was keeping a lookout ahead for other vehicles; that shortly before driving into such parked truck he observed a pocket of fog which partly obscured his vision; but where there is also evidence tending to show that the truck was parked a considerable distance upon the paved roadway and that there were no lights upon the truck.

(Allread and Ferneding, JJ. concur.)

For reference to full opinion, see Omnibus Index, last page, this issue.