Wymer-Harris Construction Co. v. Glass

The parties will he referred to in the reverse order from which they appear here. The defendant, under a contract with the hoard of county commissioners of Mahoning county, was engaged in reflooring the Market street viaduct in the city of Youngstown. The plaintiff’s decedent was employed by the Republic Iron & Steel Company, whose office building, from an upper floor, led onto the easterly sidewalk of the viaduct, and such decedent, in leaving such office in the usual way, met his death by being struck by an automobile which was traveling in a northerly direction over the westerly side of…