Ohio Casualty Insurance v. Davey Tree Expert Co.

This matter was heard on plaintiff’s amended petition, defendant’s answer, stipulations entered into by counsel for the parties and the evidence.

The essential facts claimed in the petition and established by the evidence are that Marigold Drive and Chestnut St., both hard-surfaced roads in Mentor, Ohio, intersect to form an “L” intersection, each street terminating as it joins the other at right angles; that around the L, on the exterior side, are grouped three residences of reasonably recent construction, and running clockwise, owned and occupied by one Lazo, by William and Beth Ware…