Case ID: ohio-st_70/html/0504-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Spear, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 8180.
    The National Life Insurance Co. v. Hanner, Admr.
    (Decided June 14, 1904.)
    Error to Circuit Court of Lucas county.
    
      Messrs. Doyle S Lewis, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Messrs. Kinney & Neivton and Mr. G. W. Kinney,. for defendant in
   On rehearing. Former judgment set aside. Judgments of the circuit court and of the common pleas. reversed and judgment for plaintiff in error on undisputed facts.

Davis, Shauck, Price, Crew and Summers, JJ.,. concur.

Spear, C. J.,

dissents on the ground that the rendition of judgment for plaintiff in error results in a. denial of the constitutional right of trial by jury. It substitutes the judgment of five men selected to pass, upon questions of law for the judgment of twenty-four men (two juries), selected especially for the determination of questions of fact, supplemented by two judges of the common pleas and of three judges of the circuit court, all of whom are also selected for the duty of determining questions of fact.