Branahan v. Cincinnati Hotel Co.
Ohio Supreme Court
Motion for leave to file a petition in error to the District Court of Hamilton county. The Cincinnati Hotel Company is the perpetual lessee of a lot one hundred and seventy-eight feet front, on Fourth street, Cincinnati, and two hundred feet deep on Central avenue, on which there is a large and costly building, used partly for hotel purposes and partly rented out as store-rooms. That part of said building fronting on Fourth street is known as the Grand Hotel.
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Motion for leave to file a petition in error to the District Court of Hamilton county. The Cincinnati Hotel Company is the perpetual lessee of a lot one hundred and seventy-eight feet front, on Fourth street, Cincinnati, and two hundred feet deep on Central avenue, on which there is a large and costly building, used partly for hotel purposes and partly rented out as store-rooms. That part of said building fronting on Fourth street is known as the Grand Hotel. On the side fronting on Central avenue there is an entrance to the hotel, and seven store-rooms rented and occupied separately from the…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnston, C. J.
The finding of the Court below, that the use of Central avenue from Fourth to Third streets, as a hack stand, is such an unlawful interference with the use and occupation from the *187premises by the adjacent owners, the plaintiffs, as to obstruct the avenue and render access to the store-rooms fronting thereon by the plaintiffs’ tenants impossible, leaves little to be said.
The owner of lots abutting upon a public street in a city or village, has a peculiar interest in the street, distinct from the rights of the public to use the street. It is a private property right in the nature of an…
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