Case Name: COUNTER v. TIEDEMAN et
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1928-01-30
Citations: 6 Ohio Law Abs. 216
Docket Number: No. 1931
Parties: COUNTER v. TIEDEMAN et.
Judges: (Richards and Lloyd, JJ. concur.)
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 6
Pages: 216–217

Head Matter:
COUNTER v. TIEDEMAN et.
Ohio Appeals, 6th Dist., Lucas Co.
No. 1931.
Decided Jan. 30, 1928.
• Harris & Kaplin and Wm. H. MeLellan, Toledo, for Counter.
Calkins, Storey & Nye, Toledo, for Tiedeman et.

Opinion:
OPINION OF COURT.
The following is taken, verbatim, from the opinion.
WILLIAMS, J.
We think this motion should be sustained. Plaintiff below might have filed a motion for a new trial as against the defendant Henry Bender and, upon the overruling of the motion and entering of judgment in favor of the defendant Bender, the plaintiff below might have prosecutéd error or filed a cross petition in error in this proceeding. Such action was not taken. The defendants, if both .liable, were jointly and severally liable as joint tort feasors, and the' plaintiff in error can not complain because a verdict was not returned in favor of the plaintiff below against a joint tort feasor with whom he was sued jointly. This ruling is in accordance with that made by this court in the case of Maud Raydure Rogers v. Florence I. Martin Ziegler, et. No. 1543. The petition in error will therefore be dismissed as to the defendant Henry Bender and the service of summons in error made upon him is quashed, vacated and set aside.
There remains for us to consider the other alleged ground of error which is that the court erred in his charge to the juiy.
We think it was not prejudicial to the rights of plaintiff in error for the court to read to the jury Sec. 6310-33 GC. as above quoted, as there is nothiijg in the charge explanatory of this section. _ The plaintiff in error claims there was no issue upon which the section could have a bearing. Even so, the plaintiff in error could not he prejudiced by a mere reading thereof to the jury, in the light of the' whole .charge.
It is contended that the other portions of the charge of the court above quoted constitute prejudicial error for the reason that due weight is not given to Section 6310-28 GC. and Section 6310-28a GC. It will he observed, however, that under 6310-28 GC. right of way means the right of a vehicle to proceed uninterruptedly in a lawful manner in the direction in which it is moving in preference to another vehicle approaching from a different direction into its path. The evidence shows that the automobiles of the two defendants below were going in the same direction. The statute was therefore not applicable. As to Section 6310-28a, we hold that it only gives the right of way to a vehicle approaching from the right where the paths of the two vehicles intersect. There is no intersection. of paths or of streets unless such paths or streets cross each other. Atwood v. Connecticut Co. 82 Conn. 539; 74 Alt. 899; 901; Godfrey v. City of New York; 93 N. Y. Supp., 899; 903; 104 App. Div. 357. Section 6310-28a, therefore, has no bearing upon the case at bar.
On the whole, we think that the charge was more favorable jp the plaintiff in error than he had a right to expect. There is, however, no error in the charge prejudicial to the rights of the plaintiff in error.
The judgment will be affirmed.
(Richards and Lloyd, JJ. concur.)