Case ID: ohio-st-3d_84/html/0357-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Lundberg Stratton, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State ex rel. Clark, Appellant, v. Industrial Commission of Ohio, Appellee.
    [Cite as State ex rel. Clark v. Indus. Comm,. (1999), 84 Ohio St.3d 357.]
    (No. 97-2484
    Submitted November 10, 1998
    Decided January 20, 1999.)
    
      Elliott, Heller, Maas, Moro & Magill Co., L.P.A., and Richard L. Magill, for appellant.
    
      Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, and Gerald H. Waterman, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.
    
      Stewart Jajfy & Associates Co., L.P.A., Stewart R. Jajfy, Marc J. Jajfy and Lynn S. Jajfy, urging reversal for amicus curiae, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers.
   The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed. A writ of mandamus directing the Industrial Commission to vacate its denial of compensation for the total loss of the second finger and to enter an order granting that compensation is allowed.

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

Cook and Lundberg Stratton, JJ., dissent.

Lundberg Stratton, J.,

dissenting. I dissent and would affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.

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