JONES v. NEW YORK, C. & ST. L. R. CO.

Civ. No. 26691.

117 F.Supp. 351 (1952)

JONES v. NEW YORK, C. & ST. L. R. CO.

United States District Court, N. D. Ohio, E. D.

November 6, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harrison, Spangenberg & Hull, Cleveland, Ohio (Craig Spangenberg, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Edwin Knachel, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant.


McNAMEE, District Judge.

The sole issue in this case is whether plaintiff's failure to look in the direction from which the train was approaching as he advanced from his stopping place 20 feet from the nearest rail, was a contributing proximate cause of his injuries.

The case was submitted to a jury and a verdict returned in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $20,000. The verdict of the jury establishes that defendant did not give timely signals of the approach...

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