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Thomas v. Youngstown Municipal Ry. Co.

Thomas v. the Youngstown Municipal Ry. Co.

Thomas v. Youngstown Mun. Ry. Co., 174 N.E. 252 (Ohio 1930)
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Court
Ohio Supreme Court · State Highest Courts
Decided
April 23, 1930
Docket
No. 22019
Judges
Kinkade, Robinson, Jones, Matthias, Day
Citations
174 N.E. 252122 Ohio St. 610122 Ohio St. (N.S.) 61010 Ohio Law. Abs. 4141930 Ohio LEXIS 278

Opinion of the Court

It is ordered and adjudged that tbe judgment of tbe said Court of Appeals be, and the same is hereby, affirmed, for tbe reasons that while tbe evidence tended to prove that tbe plaintiff in error was injured by a board suspended or falling from tbe bridge, and tended to prove that tbe defendant in error, together with others, bad agreed to keep tbe bridge in repair, it did not tend to prove that tbe board had ever been a part of tbe bridge, nor that it bad ever been a part of tbe property of tbe defendant in error, nor that tbe defendant in error bad any part in causing it to fall or be suspended from *611 the bridge, nor that the defendant in error had any knowledge of its existence or presence on or suspension from the bridge, nor that the bridge was in the exclusive control of the defendant in error, so as to make the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applicable.

Judgment affirmed.

Kinkade, Robinson, Jones, Matthias and Day, JJ., concur.

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1944: 11949: 119442026peak 1944 · 1

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  1. Fink v. New York Central Rd.56 N.E.2d 456 (Ohio 1944)
  2. Soltz v. Colony Recreation Center87 N.E.2d 167 (Ohio 1949)

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  1. Soltz v. Colony Recreation Center87 N.E.2d 167 (Ohio 1949)
  2. Fink v. New York Central Rd.56 N.E.2d 456 (Ohio 1944)

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