Case ID: ohio-law-abs_4/html/0143-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ROBINSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 180
    No. 19028
    City of Cleveland v. Amedeo Ferrando.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga County.
    885. PARKS — 1. Municipally owned and controlled, for general public, impose duty upon city to keep them free from nuisance.
    2. Unexploded and unguarded bomb is nuisance per se and municipality liable in damages for failure to remove same.
   ROBINSON, J.

1. Municipally owned and controlled parks, established and maintained for and open to the general public, are “public grounds” within the meaning of that phrase in Section 3714, General Code, and by that section the duty is imposed upon municipalities to keep them free from nuisance.

2. The presence of an unguarded, unexploded bomb in a public park is a nuisance per se, and a municipality owning and controlling such public park, on proof of knowledge or notice of such nuisance, actual or constructive, is liable to persons injured by reason of its failure to remove same.

Judgment affirmed.

Marshall, CJ., Matthias, Day, Allen and Kinkade, JJ., concur.