Gerend v. City of Akron

The parties will be referred to as they were in the court below. The action is one in which the plaintiff in the trial court recovered a judgment against the defendant for injuries received when she was riding in an automobile being driven upon one of the streets in the defendant municipal corporation.

In the petition the plaintiff alleged that the defendant was engaged in the project of repairing the street in question, and that it “did commit gross neglect, in that the said repairs were of a nature to render the street unfit for vehicle passage, and were left with only one small light at the…