Opinion

Osborn v. City of Akron

  • 171 Ohio St. (N.S.) 361
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Dec 21, 1960
Status
Published
Author
Weygandt
On the bench
Bell, Herbert, Matthias, Neill, Taet, Weygandt, Zimmerman
Cited by
0 cases

The opinion

Weygandt, C. J.,

dissents for the reason that the Court of Appeals was correct in its unanimous summary of the case in the following statement:

“In the instant case, however, we have a claim for a private nuisance, and we have the city engaging in the disposal of garbage and rubbish not only for its own inhabitants, but it is also engaged, for a fee, in the business of disposing of the same matter for other municipalities and private parties. In thus performing this function, it acts in a proprietary capacity, and hence is subject to the common-law rule of liability for conduct which causes injury to another.”

City of Cleveland v. Russo, Admr., 98 Ohio St., 465 ; City of Toledo v. Cone, 41 Ohio St., 149 .

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