Renner v. Dublin (Vil.)

BY THE COURT.

Edwin Renner brought this action originally in the Franklin Common Pleas against the village of Dublin to recover damages for injury to his machine, which collided with a concrete watering trough, maintained by the Village in the middle of the road.

Renner claimed that the night was dark and foggy and was unable to see more than a few feet ahead; that there was no light over the trough; that he was travelling at a low rate of speed and was keeping to the middle of the road; when he crashed into said watering trough. At the close of all the evidence, a motion for a directed verdict…