Schneider v. City of Cincinnati

Motion to direct a verdict.

This motion raises important questions and places upon the court the possible necessity of assuming a responsibility that a court would much prefer to leave with a jury; but it is the duty of the court so to act if the facts require it and it is reversible error not to do so.

The plaintiff’s testimony shows that she lived in the immediate vicinity of the place of the accident, on the same side of the street for about a year and a-half prior thereto, and frequently passed over the sidewalk where the accident occurred. An alley comes down from a higher level at a…