Hillyer v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Full title: HILLYER ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE…

Court: Supreme Court of Ohio

Date published: Jul 22, 1998

696 N.E.2d 567 (Ohio 1998)

696 N.E.2d 567

Opinion

No. 97-2143

Submitted June 24, 1998 —

Decided July 22, 1998.

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Cuyahoga County, No. 71724.

Friedman, Domiano Smith Co., L.P.A., and Jeffrey H. Friedman, for appellants.

Meyers, Hentemann Rea Co., L.P.A., and Henry A. Hentemann, for appellee.

The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, 695 N.E.2d 732.

MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY and PFEIFER, JJ., concur.

COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., dissent.

COOK, J., dissenting.

For the reasons stated in my dissenting opinion to Ross v. Farmers Ins. Group of Cos. (1998), 82 Ohio St.3d 281, 291, 695 N.E.2d 732, 738, I respectfully dissent.

LUNDBERG STRATTON, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.