Cleveland, P. & E. Ry. v. Sites

Citations

• 21 Ohio C.C. Dec. 167

Syllabus

<p>NEGLIGENCE — STREET RAILWAYS.</p> <p>Negligent Speed of Electric Car.</p> <p>Where an electric railway company operates its road on the public highway, and runs its cars in the nighttime upon a straight level track, although in the open country, at such a rate of speed that a cow cannot be discovered standing upon the track by the light of the headlight in time to stop the car, and a passenger is injured by reason of the car striking the animal, such facts will justify a jury in rendering a verdict in favor of the passenger for the injuries sustained.</p> <p>[Syllabus approved by the court.]</p>