Farrar v. Koontz

At about 9:30 a. m. Sunday, January 3, 1937, a bright, clear day, the appellee, Charles Farrar, a resident of Bellevue, Ohio, was a passenger on an interurban street car going easterly to Norwalk, Ohio, his destination being the home of his son who resided on the east side of N. West street in the latter city. When the street car, traveling on Main street, reached West street, an intersecting street in the westerly limits of Norwalk, it crossed West street and stopped to permit Farrar, the only passenger getting off at that stop, to alight.

Some twenty or thirty feet east of West street, on…