Case Title: Case v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.

Citation: 1994-Ohio-493

Docket Number: 19912476

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1994-05-11T00:00:00Z

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Case, Admr., et al., Appellees, v. Norfolk and Western Railway                   
Company, Appellant; Robinson, Admr., Appellee.                                   
[Cite as Case v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. (1994),      Ohio                          
St.3d     .]                                                                     
Appeal dismissed for want of final appealable order.                             
     (No. 91-2476 -- Submitted December 7, 1993 -- Decided May                   
11, 1994.)                                                                       
     Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Sandusky County, No.                   
S-90-24.                                                                         
                                                                                 
     Klineman, Rose, Wolf & Wallack, Jeffrey R. Gaither and                      
John L. Stewart; Rodney M. Arthur Co., L.P.A., and Joseph W.                     
O'Neil, for appellees Mildred G. Case, administrator of the                      
estate of Melanie D. Hay, and Jessie L. Case, administrator of                   
the estates of Timothy R. and Chad A. Keller.                                    
     Robison, Curphey & O'Connell, Jack Zouhary and Jean Ann S.                  
Sieler, for appellant.                                                           
     Gregory L. Arnold; Winchester & Associates and Mark A.                      
Robinson, for appellee Mark A. Robinson, administrator of the                    
estate of Kathy Ann Keller.                                                      
     Lee Fisher, Attorney General, and Nancy J. Miller, Deputy                   
Chief Counsel, urging affirmance for amicus curiae, state of                     
Ohio.                                                                            
     Haralson, Kinerk & Morey, P.C., Dale Haralson and Adam                      
Levine; Arthur H. Bryant and Priscilla Budeiri, urging                           
affirmance for amicus curiae, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice,                  
P.C.                                                                             
     Schulman, Mestel & Burick Co., L.P.A., Allen Schulman,                      
Jr., Paul O. Scott, Michael F. Colley, Robert Gibbon and Thomas                  
Murray, urging affirmance for amici cariae, Ohio Academy of                      
Trial Lawyers and Association of Trial Lawyers of America.                       
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
     The appeal is dismissed for want of a final appealable                      
order.                                                                           
     Moyer, C.J., A.W. Sweeney, Douglas, Wright, F.E. Sweeney                    
and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.                                                        
     Prior to his death while sitting for Resnick, J., John F.                   
Corrigan, J., of the Eighth Appellate District, participated in                  
the decision of this cause.