Mansperger v. Ehrnfield

S herí ok, J.

This appeal presents a question of law made upon the trial court’s puling in sustaining defendant’s motion for a directed verdict at the conclusion of plaintiff’s case. The action is for damages for personal injury to plaintiff, a pedestrian, sustained whil¿ attempting to cross a public street at a place other than a crosswalk in a portion of the city of Zanesville theretofore denominated by ordinance as within the closely built up business section.

Plaintiff’s evidence establishes that he was returning from work shortly after midnight in an automobile driven by a fellow employee;…