Universal Concrete Pipe Co. v. Bassett

It is becoming ultra-fasbionable in Ohio in personal injury cases to allege that tbe acts or omissions that proximately caused tbe injuries complained of were wanton.

Tbe term “wilful” is seldom used alone, but quite often tbe acts or omissions are characterized as both wilful and wanton. We have no degrees of negligence in Ohio. We define negligence as tbe failure to exercise ordinary care, and we can properly denominate such negligence as ordinary negligence. In some jurisdictions it is referred to as “simple” negligence, in others “mere” negligence. There is “method in the madness” that…