Case Title: Wenner v. Midland Title Sec., Inc.

Citation: 2005-Ohio-4555

Docket Number: 20041509

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2005-09-14T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Cite as Wenner v. Midland Title Sec., Inc., 106 Ohio St.3d 1207, 2005-Ohio-4555.] 
 
 
WENNER, APPELLANT, v. MIDLAND TITLE SECURITY, INC., APPELLEE, ET AL. 
[Cite as Wenner v. Midland Title Sec., Inc., 
 106 Ohio St.3d 1207, 2005-Ohio-4555.] 
Appeal dismissed as improvidently accepted. 
(No. 2004-1509 — Submitted June 15, 2005 — Decided September 14, 2005.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Richland County,  
No. 03CA107, 2004-Ohio-3989. 
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{¶ 1} The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently 
accepted. 
 
MOYER, C.J., RESNICK, LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’CONNOR, O’DONNELL 
and LANZINGER, JJ., concur. 
 
PFEIFER, J., dissents. 
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PFEIFER, J., dissenting. 
{¶ 2} We should have decided this case on the merits and found that the 
trial court erred in its denial of class certification.  “[A] plaintiff’s claim is typical 
if it arises from the same event or practice or course of conduct that gives rise to 
the claims of the other class members, and if his or her claims are based on the 
same legal theory.”  Baughman v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. (2000), 88 Ohio 
St.3d 480, 485, 727 N.E.2d 1265.  Civ.R. 23 is about cases with predominant 
legal and factual elements in common; minor factual peculiarities of individual 
claims should not destroy one plaintiff’s ability to represent the class. 
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Murray & Murray Co., L.P.A., Dennis E. Murray Jr., and Barbara Quinn 
Smith, for appellant. 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
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Brown, Bemiller, Murray & McIntyre and William T. McIntyre; Bryan 
Cave L.L.P., Charles A. Newman, Douglas W. King, and Elizabeth A. 
Teutenberg, for appellee. 
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