Woolfe v. Ohio Oil Co.

(after stating the facts as above). The trial court sustained the motion of the defendant for a directed verdict upon the sole ground that the evidence disclosed the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law. Evidence was introduced on the part of the defendant tending to prove that the plaintiff could have oiled this engine with safety to himself by stopping it during the oiling operation and starting it'again after the oil had been supplied; that the engine could have been stopped by giving a quarter turn to the lever of the gas valve to shut off the gas and almost…