Case Name: John Schulte v. Dora Johnson
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-01-02
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 103
Docket Number: No. 17275
Parties: John Schulte v. Dora Johnson.
Judges: Hough, Robinson, Jones, Matthias and Clark, JJ., concur. Wanamaker, J., dissents.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 103–103

Head Matter:
No. 17275.
John Schulte v. Dora Johnson.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Hamilton county.
COURTS — Jurisdiction of superior court of Cincinnati — (2) In personal injury cases, sets as a court of general jurisdiction, — (3) In such courts, ordinance must be plead and proven.

Opinion:
HOUGH, J.
1. The superior court of Cincinnati is a creature of legislative enactment, and its jurisdiction is defined in Chapter 5, Title IV, Part First, General Code. It is a court of general jurisdiction for many purposes, differing in its jurisdiction from the court of common pleas only in territorial limitation.
2. In the trial and determination of a personal injury case for damages, grounded on negligence, the superior court of Cincinnati, when the subject-matter and parties are properly before it, sits as a court of general jurisdiction.
3. Courts of general jurisdiction do not take judicial notice of municipal ordinances, and the litigant relying upon such ordinances must plead it, and offer it in evidence as other evidential matters.
Judgment reversed.
Hough, Robinson, Jones, Matthias and Clark, JJ., concur. Wanamaker, J., dissents.