Lumbatis v. Grange Mutual Casualty Company

Full title: Lumbatis, Appellant, v . Grange Mutual Casualty Company, Appellee

Court: Supreme Court of Ohio

Date published: May 10, 2000

727 N.E.2d 593 (Ohio 2000)

727 N.E.2d 593

Opinion

Nos. 99-1348 and 99-1546.

Submitted April 11, 2000.

Decided May 10, 2000.

Appeal from and Certified by the Court of Appeals for Monroe County, No. 803.

James W. Peters, for appellant.

Thornburg Bean and Charles H. Bean, for appellee.

The judgment of the court of appeals is vacated, and the cause is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings and consideration, where applicable, of the Supreme Court's decisions in Wolfe v. Wolfe (2000), 88 Ohio St.3d 246, 725 N.E.2d 261, and Moore v. State Auto. Mut. Ins. Co. (2000), 88 Ohio St.3d 27, 723 N.E.2d 97.

Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.

Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.

Lundberg Stratton, J., dissenting.

I respectfully dissent for the reasons set forth in the dissenting opinions in Wolfe v. Wolfe (2000), 88 Ohio St.3d 246, 252-255, 725 N.E.2d 261, 267-269, and Moore v. State Auto. Mut. Ins. Co. (2000), 88 Ohio St.3d 27, 33-36, 723 N.E.2d 97, 103-105.

Cook, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.