Dietrich v. Community Traction Co.

The Court of Appeals in the instant case held that the defendant bus company owed no duty to a passenger who had alighted and taken two or three steps before he was injured. On the same question, in the Mueller and O’Reilly cases, supra, the Courts of Appeals for Hamilton and Cuyahoga Counties allowed recovery for the passenger, even though he had alighted and proceeded some distance at the time he was injured.

Section 6, Article IV of the Ohio Constitution, provides as follows:

“* * * whenever the judges of a Court of Appeals find that a judgment upon which they have agreed is in conflict with…