Hughes v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.

Plaintiff seeks damages for injuries resulting from being struck by a street car of defendant. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the trial court sustained a motion to dismiss plaintiff’s cause of action. Plaintiff appeals. We affirm the decision of the trial court.

The accident occurred at Sixty-second and Maple streets in Omaha. Sixty-second street runs south from Maple street so that the two streets form a T at that point with . buildings built along the north side of the T on Maple street.

Maple street is 60 feet in width at that point, and is level for a block or more to the west. The…