Case ID: ohio-st-3d_31/html/0160-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Insurance Company of North America, Appellant, v. Mayfield, Admr., et al., Appellees.
    
    [Cite as Ins. Co. of N. America v. Mayfield (1987), 31 Ohio St. 3d 160.]
    (No. 86-1531
    Decided July 1, 1987.)
    
      Knepper, White, Arter & Hadden, Douglas M. Bricker and Judith E. Trail, for appellant.
    
      Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., attorney general, and Michael L. Squillace, for appellees.
    
      Gallon, Kalniz & lorio Co., L.P.A., James A. Whittaker and William E. Takacs, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, Teamsters Union Local 20.
    
      
       Case No. 86-1212 involves the same parties and issue and is governed by the result in this case.
    
   The judgment in this cause, having been certified by the court of appeals in case No. 85AP-546 as being in conflict with Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (Oct. 18,1985), Lucas App. Nos. L-85-036, L-85-037 and L-85-053, unreported, is hereby reversed on authority of Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (1987), 31 Ohio St. 3d 152, 31 OBR 318, 509 N.E. 2d 938, and the cause is remanded to the trial court.

Moyer, C.J., Sweeney, Holmes, Wright and H. Brown, JJ., concur.

Locher and Douglas, JJ., dissent.

Locher, J.,

dissenting. I respectfully dissent for the reasons expressed in my dissent in Holben v. Interstate Motor Freight System (1987), 31 Ohio St. 3d 152, 31 OBR 318, 509 N.E. 2d 938.

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