Case ID: ohio-lr_31/html/0058-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Zimmerman, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Announced Wednesday, May 19.
    38459.
    Hyde, appellant v. City of Lakewood, appellee. Holt, appellee v. City of Cincinnati, appellant.
   Zimmerman, Judge.

1. Unless there is a statute removing immunity, a governmental unit or agency may escape liability for the commission of a tort upon a showing that a governmental function was being performed at the time the tort occurred.

2. Whether the performance of various activities by a municipality is governmental or proprietary frequently depends on the peculiar facts of the particular case. In one instance a municipally owned hospital may be found to be carrying on a governmental function in the manner of its operation, whereas in another instance a finding may be made that a municipally owned hospital is being operated in a proprietary capacity.

Judgments affirmed.

Taft, C. J., O’Neill and Brown, JJ., concur.

Matthias, Herbert and Schneider, JJ., concur in case No. 38955 but dissent in case No. 38459.