Case ID: ohio-st-3d_67/html/1201-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Addison, Guardian, Appellee, v. Ohio River Company et al., Appellees and Cross-Appellants; Consolidated Grain and Barge Company, Appellant and Cross-Appellee.
    [Cite as Addison v. Ohio River Co. (1993), 67 Ohio St.3d 1201.]
    (No. 92-909
    Submitted March 17, 1993
    Decided July 28, 1993.)
    
      John Rockel, Sandor Korein and Michael B. Marker, for appellee.
    
      Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, William P. Schroeder and Ralph F. Mitchell, for appellees and cross-appellants.
    
      Wood & Lamping, David A. Caldwell and William R. Ellis, for appellant and cross-appellee.
   This cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

AW. Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick and F.E. Sweeney, JJ., concur.

Moyer, C.J., and Wright, J., dissent with opinion.

Pfeifer, J., dissents.

Wright, J.,

dissenting. As to the claims against appellant Consolidated Grain & Barge Company (“CGB”), the court of appeals misapplied Ohio’s summary judgment standard. Based on the Civ.R. 56(C) materials before the trial court, no reasonable mind could conclude that CGB was liable to the third-party plaintiffs. I feel that the court of appeals’ error was significant given the importance of summary judgment in our judicial system. This court should have reached the merits and reversed the judgment of the court of appeals. I respectfully dissent.

Moyer, C.J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.