Shapiro v. Butts

99 N.E.2d 173 (1951)

155 Ohio St. 407

SHAPIRO

v.

BUTTS.

No. 32312.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

May 16, 1951.

Herbert & Dombey, Columbus, for appellee.

Benoy & Sebastian, Columbus, for appellant.

STEWART, Judge.

The question before us is whether the trial court was correct in charging the jury to the effect that defendant was entitled to disregard the stop sign on Fulton street just west of Eighteenth street, for the reason that the letters on such stop sign were only five inches in height.

Eighteenth street was, by ordinance, designated a through street, and the stop sign was erected on May 22, 1939, and has…