Case Title: Dillon v. Med. Ctr. Hosp.

Citation: 1995-Ohio-112

Docket Number: 19932307

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1995-04-12T00:00:00Z

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Dillon et al., Appellants, v. Medical Center Hospital, Appellee.                 
[Cite as Dillon v. Med. Ctr. Hosp. (1995),     Ohio St.3d    .]                  
Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed.                                       
     (No. 93-2307 -- Submitted February 7, 1995 -- Decided                       
April 12, 1995.)                                                                 
     Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Ross County, No.                       
93 CA 1942.                                                                      
                                                                                 
     Spetnagel & Benson, Thomas M. Spetnagel and Paige J.                        
McMahon, for appellants.                                                         
     Bricker & Eckler, Michael J. Renner and Jack Rosati, Jr.,                   
for appellee.                                                                    
     Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, William M. Todd and Terri-Lynne                  
B. Smiles, urging afirmance for amicus curiae, Ohio Hospital                     
Association.                                                                     
                                                                                 
     The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been                         
improvidently allowed.                                                           
     Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Resnick and F.E. Sweeney, JJ.,                        
concur.                                                                          
     Wright, Pfeifer and Cook, JJ., dissent.                                     
Wright, J., dissenting.                                                          
     I would affirm the court of appeals on the ground that the                  
nurses' negligence was not an actual cause of the plaintiff's                    
injury.                                                                          
     Cook, J., concurs in the foregoing dissenting opinion.                      
     Pfeifer, J., dissenting.  I would reverse the Court of                      
Appeals for Ross County because there is sufficient evidence of                  
negligence and causation to survive a motion for summary                         
judgment.  Accordingly, I dissent.