Opinion
No. 95-380
Submitted June 6, 1995 —
Decided August 16, 1995.
APPEAL and CROSS-APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Lucas County, No. L-94-032.
Cubbon Associates Co., L.P.A., and David L. Rice, for appellants and cross-appellees.
Jones Bahret Co., L.P.A., Robert J. Bahret and Peter C. Munger, for appellee Garry D. Belcher, d.b.a. Shoreland Auto Care.
Thompson, Hine Flory, Stephen H. Daniels and Mark N. Rose, for appellee Coltec Industries, Inc.
Crabbe, Brown, Jones, Potts Schmidt and Charles E. Brown, for appellee and cross-appellant Chrysler Corporation.
The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed. The judgment of the court of appeals as to the issue raised on cross-appeal is reversed, and the judgment of the trial court as to cross-appellant Chrysler Corporation is reinstated on the authority of McAuliffe v. W. States Import Co., Inc. (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 534, 651 N.E.2d 957.
MOYER, C.J., WRIGHT, PFEIFER and COOK, JJ., concur.
F.E. SWEENEY, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in McAuliffe v. W. States Import Co., Inc. (1995), 72 Ohio St.3d 534, 540, 651 N.E.2d 957, 962.
DOUGLAS and RESNICK, JJ., not participating.