Reed v. Erie Rd. Co.

Should the appellee be held legally responsible for the death of Leah Catherine Reed, upon the evidence adduced?

•The following material facts are shown by the record:

Route 31 is a state highway, with a concrete surface, running in a general northerly and southerly direction. Some few miles northwest of the city of Marysville, Ohio, in the open country, it is intersected at an angle by a single track of the Erie Railroad, running in a general easterly and westerly direction.

On the night of February 27, 1935, at about ten o’clock, four persons, two young men and two high school girls, one of…