Case Name: CLEVELAND RY. CO. v. HUNT
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1926-07-16
Citations: 4 Ohio Law Abs. 667
Docket Number: No. 19987
Parties: CLEVELAND RY. CO. v. HUNT
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 4
Pages: 667–667

Head Matter:
CLEVELAND RY. CO. v. HUNT
No. 19987.
Supreme Court
Dock. July 16, 1926;
4 Abs. 493.
Attorneys — Squire, Sanders & Dempsey for Company; W. J. Corrigan for Hunt; all of Cleveland.

Opinion:
This action was brought originally by Ellen Hunt in the Cuyahoga Common Pleas against the Cleveland Railway Company for damages arising from personal injury received while a passenger on a car owned and operated by the company.
It appears that the street car was crowded and that a sudden jerk of said car caused an intoxixeated person to injure the complainant. The evidence did not support a conclusion that the equilibrium of the party intoxixeated was effected by the jerk of the car.
The judgment of the Common Pleas in granting a motion for a directed verdict in favor of the Company was reversed by the Court of Appeals on its finding that evidence showing an unusual jerk will support a contention of actionable negligence.
The Company in the Supreme Court contends : '
. 1. That the Court of Appeals erred in reversing the judgment of the Common Pleas in granting a directed verdict.
2. That no actionable negligence had been supported by evidence.