Shields v. Cleveland (City)

Citations

• 33 Ohio C.C. Dec. 338
• 21 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 257
• 1905 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 412

Syllabus

<p>MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS</p> <p>Municipal Corporation Liable for Injury Caused by Dangerous Condition of Streets, Notwithstanding Plaintiff’s Knowledge.</p> <p>When a dangerous condition exists in a street due to repairs of pavement being made by the city, and plaintiff, who has knowledge of the conditions, while alighting from a car at night thinking he was alighting upon a crosswalk a short distance from the place being repaired, is injured by stepping into a hole which he could not see by reason of the city’s neglect to place red lights or to keep an arc light overhead burning, the city will be liable.</p>