Case Name: HERBIG v. ST. BERNARD (City)
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924-07-11
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 517
Docket Number: No. 16898
Parties: HERBIG v. ST. BERNARD (City)
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 517–517

Head Matter:
No. 506
HERBIG v. ST. BERNARD (City)
No. 16898.
In Ohio Supreme Court
Pending on motion to require Hamilton Appeals to certify record.
Docketed July 11, 1924.
2 Abs. 452.
801. MUNICIPAL LAW — Is the negligent erection of a fire plug by a city, in its sidewalk, a governmental function?
Attorneys — Edward Ballard, Cincinnati, for Herbig; Loraine Caine, St. Bernard, for city.

Opinion:
The city of St. Bernard erected a fire hydrant about three feet high and one foot in diameter, in the cemented traveled area at the junction of a street corner, in its city, and directly in the path of pedestrians leaving a street car at that corner and walking on to. the sidewalk on a dark and rainy night. Her-hig alighted from a street car and hastened to the sidewalk. There was no street light on this corner, and not seeing the hydrant, he fell over it, and was injured severely.
The case was submitte dto a jury, and he received a verdict for $700, upon which judgment was rendered. The city took the case to the Court of Appeals, and it reversed the Common Pleas, on the ground that the erection of the fire plug was a governmental function, and the city was not liable for negligence in its exercise.