Case Name: Thomas v. The Youngstown Municipal Ry. Co.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1930-04-23
Citations: 122 Ohio St. 610
Docket Number: No. 22019
Parties: Thomas v. The Youngstown Municipal Ry. Co.
Judges: Kinkade, Robinson, Jones, Matthias and Day, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 122
Pages: 610–611

Head Matter:
Thomas v. The Youngstown Municipal Ry. Co.
(No. 22019
Decided April 23, 1930.)
Messrs. Anderson & Lamb and Messrs. Tetlow & Tetlow, for plaintiff in error.
Mr. A. M. Henderson and Mr. D. F. Kennedy, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
It is ordered and adjudged that tbe judgment of tbe said Court of Appeals be, and the same is hereby, affirmed, for tbe reasons that while tbe evidence tended to prove that tbe plaintiff in error was injured by a board suspended or falling from tbe bridge, and tended to prove that tbe defendant in error, together with others, bad agreed to keep tbe bridge in repair, it did not tend to prove that tbe board had ever been a part of tbe bridge, nor that it bad ever been a part of tbe property of tbe defendant in error, nor that tbe defendant in error bad any part in causing it to fall or be suspended from the bridge, nor that the defendant in error had any knowledge of its existence or presence on or suspension from the bridge, nor that the bridge was in the exclusive control of the defendant in error, so as to make the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur applicable.
Judgment affirmed.
Kinkade, Robinson, Jones, Matthias and Day, JJ., concur.