Case Name: The City of Akron v. T. Melvin Butler
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 468
Docket Number: No. 17702
Parties: The City of Akron v. T. Melvin Butler.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur. Wanamaker and Day, JJ., dissent.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 468–468

Head Matter:
No. 17702
The City of Akron v. T. Melvin Butler.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Summit county.
MUNICIPAL LAW — Action for negligence of a servant of a municipality — Failure to prove nature of service — Verdict for defendant to be directed.

Opinion:
ROBINSON, J.
Where the plaintiffs in an action against a municipality to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the negligence of a servant of the municipality fails to offer any evidence tending to prove that the servant at the time was engaged in the performance of a proprietary function of the mmu-nicipality, as distniguished from a governmental function delegated by the sovereign state, a motion to direct a verdict at the close of the plaintiff's case should be sustained.
Judgment reversed and judgment for plaintiff in error.
Marshall, C. J., Jones and Matthias, JJ., concur. Wanamaker and Day, JJ., dissent.