Pritz v. Messer

The defendants in error challenge the plaintiff’s capacity to bring this action, and cite Jaeger v. Topper, 103 Ohio St., 350, 133 N. E., 82, as authority for their contention. That was a case arising under the Housing Code in the city of Columbus, Ohio, and in a per curiam opinion the court held that the plaintiff, who was an abutting property owner, could not sue to restrain the defendant from altering his residence, so as to make it a tenement house of four apartments, contrary to the provisions of the Housing Code, on the ground that the purpose of the Code was to make provision…