Case Name: Isaac Leisy Brew. Co. v. Alphons Kapl
Court: Cuyahoga Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1908-12-07
Citations: 28 Ohio C.C. Dec. 476
Docket Number: 
Parties: Isaac Leisy Brew. Co. v. Alphons Kapl.
Judges: Marvin, J., concurs.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Court Decisions
Volume: 28
Pages: 476–476

Head Matter:
NEGLIGENCE.
[Cuyahoga (8th) Circuit,
December 7, 1908.]
Henry, Marvin and Winch, JJ.
Isaac Leisy Brew. Co. v. Alphons Kapl.
Liability for Leaving Heavy Piece of Furniture in Street Which' Overturns on Child.
One who leaves a heavy article in the public streets in unstable equilibrium and in such manner as would be likely to attract children, is liable in damages to a child who has been attracted to it and is injured by having it fall upon him while playing' about it.
Solders, Thayer & Mansfield, for plaintiff in error.
Daioley & Meals, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
HENRY, J.
In the action below the defendant in error recovered a verdict and- judgment for injuries sustained by him from the overthrow of a bar fixture which had been temporarily placed during removal, in the space, between sidewalk and curb in the-street, in front of the plaintiff's premises. It was left in unstable equilibrium, and the defendant in error, a child of six years, intermeddled with it so that it fell over on him.
Because this was a public street where the child had a right to be and whdre it was to be expected that small children would exercise their childish instincts, a majority of the court are unwilling to hold that the doctrine of Wheeling & L. E. Ry. v. Harvey, 77 Ohio St. 235 [83 N. E. 66; 19 L. R. A.(N. S.)1136; 122 Am. St. 503; 11 Ann. Cas. 981], as applicable to private premises, rules in this case; especially as that decision distinguishes instead of in terms reversing, Harriman v. Railway, 45 Ohio St. 11 [12 N. E. 451; 4 Am. St. 507].
Judgment affirmed.
Marvin, J., concurs.
Winch, J., dissents.