LATTEA v. CITY OF AKRON

No. 82AP-65.

9 Ohio App. 3d 118 (1982)

LATTEA, ADMR., APPELLEE, v. CITY OF AKRON, APPELLEE; JOHN G. RUHLIN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, APPELLANT; THE STATE OF OHIO, APPELLEE.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Franklin County.

Decided December 23, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Glenn W. Morris, for appellee Lattea.

Mr. Steven D. Bell and Mr. Edward J. Reigler, for appellee Akron.

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs Co., L.P.A., Mr. William M. Oldham, Mr. Orville L. Reed III and Mr. David P. Bertsch, for appellant.

Mr. William J. Brown, attorney general, Mr. Robert Tongren and Mr. Melvin D. Weinstein, for appellee state of Ohio.


WHITESIDE, P.J.

This appeal arises from an accident in which the west sidewalk of the Grant Street Bridge in Akron, Ohio, collapsed and fell onto Interstate 76, killing plaintiff's decedents, Rev. and Mrs. John Barrickman. At the time that the sidewalk collapsed, demolition work on the bridge was being carried out by defendant-appellant, John G. Ruhlin Construction Company (hereinafter "Ruhlin"), pursuant to a contract...

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