Boucher v. Wyandot Co.

Citations

• 28 Ohio C.C. Dec. 224
• 27 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 184

Syllabus

<p>NEGLIGENCE — WORDS AND PHRASES1</p> <p>Hughes, Kinder and Crow, JJ.</p> <p>1. Perpendicular Wash Bank, Defined.</p> <p>When a wash bank is eight feet high in the perpendicular, — r-that is, eight feet between the plane of its top and the plane of its base, it is then a perpendicular wash bank within, the meaning of the statute.</p> <p>2. “Wash Bank” Defined.</p> <p>The term “wash bank” is used to indicate a bank with its top lying adjacent to or connected with the surface of a road and running down therefrom to its base, in contradistinction from a hank whose base is in the plane of the surface of the road and running upward; . .</p> <p>[Syllabus by the court.]</p>