Case Name: Milton Sobolovitz v. The Lubric Oil Company
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 261
Docket Number: 17555
Parties: Milton Sobolovitz v. The Lubric Oil Company.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 261–261

Head Matter:
17555.
Milton Sobolovitz v. The Lubric Oil Company.
Certified by the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county.
PERSONAL INJURY — Some evidence necessary upon every essential element of case. (2) No predication of one inference of fact upon another. (3) Failure of evidence.

Opinion:
ROBINSON, J.
1. To entitle the plaintiff in a personal injury suit to have his case submitted to a jury, it is necessary that he produce some evidence upon every element essential to create liability, or produce evidence of a fact upon which a reasonable inference may be predicated to support such element:
2. An inference of fact cannot be predicated upon another inference, but must be predicated upon a fact supported by evidence.
3. Where the plaintiff fails to produce any evidence upon an essential element of his case and no reasonable inference can be drawn from a fact supported by evidence which would tend to prove such element, it is error for the court to submit the case to a jury.
Judgment of the common pleas court reversed.
Marshall, C. J., Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur.