Henry v. Cleveland (City)

Citations

• 29 Ohio C.C. Dec. 165
• 27 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 321

Syllabus

<p>AUTOMOBILES — VEHICLES.</p> <p>L Ordinance Requiring Identification of Owner of Vehicle Colliding with Person or Property Valid.</p> <p>An ordinance requiring the driver of a vehicle, colliding with person or property in a street or public place of a municipality, to stop and upon request give the name and address of the owner thereof is enforceable as a means of identification in the proper exercise and control of traffic, notwithstanding by -the giving of such information the driver may become a witness against himself.</p> <p>2. Ordinance Requiring Owner of Vehicle after Collision to Render Reasonable Assistance Invalid for Indefiniteness.</p> <p>An ordinance providing that the driver of a vehicle, which has been in collision with person or property upon any street or public place within the municipal limits, shall stop and give such reasonable assistance as can be given and upon request give the name and address of the owner of the vehicle, is invalid where pains and penalties are provided -in case of -violation, and there is a failure to limit its application to drivers who have knewingly caused injury, or requirement is made that assistance be given without provision for compensation, or-there is a failure to-fix the standard as to what shall constitute reasonable assistance.</p> <p>[Syllabus approved by the court.]</p>