Case Name: Lacy Reining, Admrx., etc., v. The Northern Ohio Traction Co.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-05-08
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 404
Docket Number: No. 17578
Parties: Lacy Reining, Admrx., etc., v. The Northern Ohio Traction Co.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Robinson and Jones, JJ., concur, filen, J., qoneurs in proposition 1 of the syllabus. Jay, J., took no part in the consideration or decision f the case.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 404–405

Head Matter:
No. 17578
Lacy Reining, Admrx., etc., v. The Northern Ohio Traction Co.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county.
STREET RAILWAYS — (1) Duty of company as carrier — Ends when it discharges passenger safel upon the street — (2) Not duty of conductor o motorman to warn passengers alighting at regula stops as to dangers from automobiles passing th cars at excessive speed.

Opinion:
MATTHIAS, J.:
1. • Although a- passenger upon a ' street car .con tinues to be a passenger until' he has accomplishec he act of alighting in safety, and although the com->any owes him a high degree of care so long as the elation of carrier and passenger continues, such re-ation terminates and the duty of the company as a arrier is ended when it has discharged him safely pon the street, and the company is not responsible or dangers which subsequently arise from conditions ot of its own creation.
2.It is not the duty of a conductor or. motorman 0 warn passengers upon leaving a street car at a egular stop of the danger of automobile traffic in city street, and failure to caution such passenger of pproaching automobiles will not render the company ¡able for injuries caused by an automobile passing he car at an excessive rate of speed and striking the assenger after he had alighted from the street car 1 safety.
Judgment affirmed.
Marshall, C. J., Robinson and Jones, JJ., concur, filen, J., qoneurs in proposition 1 of the syllabus. Jay, J., took no part in the consideration or decision f the case.