Kline v. Pennsylvania R.

A statute of the state required plaintiff, as driver of a, vehicle engaged in the transportation of school children, to bring it to a “full stop before crossing the tracks of any railroad or. interurban electric line and not to proceed across such tracks until absolutely certain that no car or train is approaching from either direction.” Gen. Code Ohio, § 7731— 2 (110 Ohio Laws, p. 46). This statute was obviously enacted in the interest of children traveling in school busses, and not for the protection of the driver. But it imposed a duty on the plaintiff, and if, in failing to perform it, he…