Bier v. City of New Philadelphia

The court of appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment in the present case stating in its opinion that it found “no support in this record for the plaintiffs-appellants’ claim that the defendants-appellees’ breach proximately caused plaintiff’s [sic] unquestionable injury.” The case of Piqua v. Morris (1918), 98 Ohio St. 42, is still the law in Ohio concerning torts which are the proximate cause of an act of God concurrent with the negligence of a defendant. In Morris the court stated in paragraph one of the syllabus:

“The proximate cause of a result is that which in a natural and…