Cleveland Ry. Co. v. McCoy

This cause comes into this court on a petition in error to the municipal court of the city of Cleveland. In the court below McCoy brought an action to recover damages by reason of an injury claimed to 'have been received by him because of the negligent act of the Cleveland Railway Company’s servants or employees, and at the trial of the case he recovered a judgment for $984, and it is to reverse that judgment that error is prosecuted here.

It seems that McCoy was on Woodland avenue at East Fifty-fifth street, and desired to take a car east, and so he went to the center of Woodland avenue,…