Boll v. Griffith

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Lawrence County Court of Common Pleas granting defendants-appellees’ motion to dismiss plaintiff-appellant’s complaint. The court adopted the referee’s findings and ruled that the complaint stated a cause of action in negligence which was barred by the statute of limitations found in R.C. 2305.09(D).

In 1978, appellant and appellee Robert E. Griffith were adjoining landowners. They each owned a series of row houses on their respective parcels of land, which were connected by a common brick wall erected directly on the property line between the two…