City of Cleveland v. Lausche

OPINION

Ey SKEEL, J.

The City of Cleveland has for a great many years maintained' and operated a Zoological Garden, first in Wade Park and then, of late years, in Brookside Park. The purpose of a Zoological Garden is cultural and educational, and is an activity which a municipality clearly has a legal right to own and to operate.

The city, on April 24, 1940, through its council, passed a resolution directing the mayor’s advisory committee and the committee on parks and public property of the city council to study the-feasibility of entering into negotiations with the Cleveland Mu • seum of…