Opinion
No. 2011–0742.
2012-12-6
BURLINGAME, Appellee, v. ESTATE OF BURLINGAME et al., Appellees; Coombs et al., Appellants.
Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Stark County, No. 2010–CA–00124,2011-Ohio-1325, 2011 WL 982490. Elizabeth Burick, Canton, for appellee Grace Burlingame. Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, L.L.P., Akron, and Orville R. Reed III; and Thomas J. Lombardi, for appellee Eva Finley, Administrator of the Estate of Dale Burlingame.
Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Stark County, No. 2010–CA–00124,2011-Ohio-1325, 2011 WL 982490.
Elizabeth Burick, Canton, for appellee Grace Burlingame. Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, L.L.P., Akron, and Orville R. Reed III; and Thomas J. Lombardi, for appellee Eva Finley, Administrator of the Estate of Dale Burlingame.
Kevin R. L'Hommedieu, Canton Chief Counsel, and Kristen Bates Aylward, Assistant Law Director, for appellants city of Canton and James R. Coombs.
Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co., L.P.A., Stephen L. Byron, Rebecca K. Schaltenbrand, and Stephen J. Smith; and Ohio Municipal League and John Gotherman, urging reversal for amicus curiae Ohio Municipal League.
Landskroner, Grieco & Merriman, L.L.C., and Drew Legando, Cleveland, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Association for Justice.
Murray & Murray Co., L.P.A., and John T. Murray, Sandusky, urging affirmance for amici curiae John Huffman and Olivia Duty.
[Ohio St.3d 490]{¶ 1} Sua sponte, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Anderson v. Massillon, 134 Ohio St.3d 380, 2012-Ohio-5711, 983 N.E.2d 266, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals for further proceedings consistent with this court's opinion in Anderson v. Massillon. O'CONNOR, C.J., and LUNDBERG STRATTON, O'DONNELL, LANZINGER, CUPP, and McGEE BROWN, JJ., concur.