Court Opinion

ID: 6746497
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 23:54:28.212819+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:02:06.021184
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OPINION
By THE COURT
The court did not err in overruling the motion to direct a verdict in favor of the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.
The plaintiff, under the conceded facts in the case, was a child under the age of fourteen years at the time of the injuries complained of by him.
Under the law of Ohio as established in the case of L. E. & W. R. R. Co. v Mackey, 53 Oh St 370 at pages 383 and 384, a child under fourteen years of age cannot be held as a matter of law to have the capacity to foresee and avoid danger, and consequently cannot be held guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.
The granting of the motion for a new trial was not a final order from which an appeal can be perfected. Ramsey v Oyler, Ohio Bar Feb. 28, 1938, 133 Oh St 321.
There is no error in any other particular argued in appellant’s briefs.
We find no error and the judgment is affirmed at costs of appellant. Cause remanded for further proceedings according to law. Exceptions.
GUERNSEY, PJ, CROW -J. KLINGER J, concur.