Interstate Motor Freight Co. v. Girard

This cause is here on error from the court of common pleas of Cuyahoga county, wherein a judgment was recovered in the sum of $5,000, reduced on account of its being excessive to the sum of $3,500. The cause of action was one for personal injuries. The parties stood in the inverse order in the court below, but will be referred to hereinafter as plaintiff and defendant.

The plaintiff, Charles Girard, on the 10th of September, 1925, at about 2:15 p. m., as an employee of. the Green Cab Company, was driving a taxicab, in the performance of his duties, in an easterly direction on Euclid avenue in…