Baker v. City of Willoughby Hills

This is an appeal from the Lake County Court of Common Pleas which granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants city of Willoughby Hills, Lake County Board of Commissioners, and the Lake County Engineer.

On July 16, 1981, appellant Merle Baker, Jr. was walking on Bishop Road between White and Chardon Roads in Willoughby Hills, Ohio, when he was struck by an automobile.

At the point of the accident Bishop Road is twenty-four feet wide with an adjacent berm measuring eighteen inches on either side of the roadway. There are no sidewalks adjacent to the road. On the day of the accident, it…