Case Name: In re: Appropriation of Easement for Highway Purposes: Carroll Weir Funeral Home, Inc., appellant v. Miller et al., appellees
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1965-06-02
Citations: 31 Ohio L.R. 76
Docket Number: 38814
Parties: In re: Appropriation of Easement for Highway Purposes: Carroll Weir Funeral Home, Inc., appellant v. Miller et al., appellees.
Judges: Taft, C. J., O’Neill, Schneider and Brown, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Reporter; a weekly journal published in the interest of the legal profession in the state of Ohio
Volume: 31
Pages: 76–77

Head Matter:
Announced, Wednesday, June 2.
38814.
In re: Appropriation of Easement for Highway Purposes: Carroll Weir Funeral Home, Inc., appellant v. Miller et al., appellees.

Opinion:
Matthias, Judge.
1. Where the parties to a lease provide that the lessor at his option may terminate the lease if the leased premises are taken by eminent domain, and the property appropriated, and the lessor property exercises his option, the lessee no longer has a property right in the premises and has no right to share in the fund deposited by the Director of Highways as compensation for the appropriation of the leased premises.
2. In its usual and ordinary meaning, the phrase, "condemned by public authority," when used in a lease with reference to the buildings and land which comprise a leasehold includes an appropriation of such property by eminent domain.
Judgment affirmed.
Taft, C. J., O'Neill, Schneider and Brown, JJ., concur.
Zimmerman and Herbert, JJ., dissent.