Kallmerten v. Cowen

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Kallmerten v. Cowen, 111 F. 297 (6th Cir. 1901)
13 Ohio F. Dec. 703; 1901 U.S. App. LEXIS 4379

Kallmerten v. Cowen

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Conrad Kallmerten was killed at a point where one of the streets of Mansfield, Ohio, is crossed obliquely by a switching tra<*k of the railroad company. The court below, on the conclusion of the plaintiff’s evidence, instructed the jury to find for the defendant by reason of the contributory negligence of the deceased, and this is the only error relied upon. The judgment must be affirmed. The accident occurred in broad daylight. The deceased was familiar with the crossing. He was walking in the street, and could have seen the approaching cars for several hundred feet before he reached the crossing, if he had looked. The evidence was conclusive that he did not look before going on the track, and no legal excuse appears which would justify or excuse his want of attention to his surroundings.

Judgment affirmed.

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Full Case Name
KALLMERTEN v. COWEN
Cited By
4 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
Railroads—Accident at Crossing—Failure to Look. A person who in broad daylight, without looking, and without any valid excuse for not looking, walked upon a railroad crossing with which he was familiar, and was killed by a passing train, when, if he had looked, he could have seen the train for several hundred feet before he. reached the crossing, was guilty of contributory negligence which precludes a recovery for his death.