Adams v. Peoples

“In the absence of a statute providing immunity, the defense of sovereign immunity is not available to a municipal corporation * * Strohofer v. Cincinnati (1983), 6 Ohio St. 3d 118, syllabus. See, also, Haverlack v. Portage Homes, Inc. (1982), 2 Ohio St. 3d 26; Enghauser Mfg. Co. v. Eriksson Engineering Ltd. (1983), 6 Ohio St. 3d 31; and Longfellow v. Newark (1985), 18 Ohio St. 3d 144. In the present case the court is called upon to interpret the immunity provided a municipal corporation by R.C. 701.02. This is not the first case in which this court has been presented with this question since…