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The State ex rel. Smith, Appellant, v. Industrial Commission of Ohio et al., Appellees.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Smith v. Indus. Comm. (1999), 84 Ohio St.3d 369.]
    (No. 96-1948
    Submitted October 12, 1998
    Decided January 20, 1999.)
    
      Law Offices of Larry Hotchkiss and Scott A. Bravi, for appellant.
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and William J. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee Industrial Commission.
    
      
      Michael Matuska, Assistant City Attorney, for appellee city of Columbus.
    
      Stewart Jaffy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jaffy and Marc J. Jaffy, urging reversal for amici curiae, Ohio AFL-CIO, Ohio Association of Professional Firefighters, and Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
    
      Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Robert A. Minor and Robin R. Obetz, urging affirmance for amici curiae, Ohio Manufacturers’ Association and Ohio Self-Insurers’ Association.
   The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and the relator’s writ of mandamus is granted. This matter is returned to the Industrial Commission to calculate temporary total disability.

Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., concur.

Moyer, C.J., Pfeifer and Cook, JJ., dissent.