Cincinnati Trac. Co. v. Manning

Citations

• 22 Ohio C.C. Dec. 684

Syllabus

<p>NEGLIGENCE — STREET RAILWAYS.</p> <p>One Driving Vehicle Back of a Street Car, Turning into and Colliding with Car on Parallel Track under Circumstances that-Looking and Listening were Insufficient is Negligence.</p> <p>A driver of a vehicle, immediately in the rear of a standing street car, turning into the parallel track without being able by looking, to see whether there was a car approaching thereon, or by listening, to distinguish the bell on the standing car from that on the approaching car, is chargeable with contributory negligence; the fact that cars had just passed on the track upon which was approaching the car colliding does not relieve against the driver’s negligence.</p>