Case Title: Burlingame v. Estate of Burlingame

Citation: 2012-Ohio-5698

Docket Number: 2011-0742

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 2012-12-06T00:00:00Z

Document:
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it may be cited as 
Burlingame v. Estate of Burlingame, Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-5698.] 
 
 
 
NOTICE 
This slip opinion is subject to formal revision before it is published in 
an advance sheet of the Ohio Official Reports.  Readers are requested 
to promptly notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of Ohio, 
65 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215, of any typographical or 
other formal errors in the opinion, in order that corrections may be 
made before the opinion is published. 
 
SLIP OPINION NO. 2012-OHIO-5698 
BURLINGAME, APPELLEE, v. ESTATE OF BURLINGAME ET AL., APPELLEES; 
COOMBS ET AL., APPELLANTS. 
[Until this opinion appears in the Ohio Official Reports advance sheets, it 
may be cited as Burlingame v. Estate of Burlingame,  
Slip Opinion No. 2012-Ohio-5698.] 
Court of appeals’ judgment reversed on the authority of Anderson v. Massillon. 
(No. 2011-0742—Submitted December 4, 2012—Decided December 6, 2012. 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Stark County,  
No. 2010-CA-00124, 2011-Ohio-1325. 
__________________ 
{¶ 1} Sua sponte, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the 
authority of Anderson v. Massillon, ___ Ohio St.3d ___, 2012-Ohio-5711, ___ 
N.E.2d ___, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals for further 
proceedings consistent with this court’s opinion in Anderson v. Massillon. 
 
 
SUPREME COURT OF OHIO 
 
2
O’CONNOR, C.J., and LUNDBERG STRATTON, O’DONNELL, LANZINGER, 
CUPP, and MCGEE BROWN, JJ., concur. 
PFEIFER, J., dissents and would affirm the judgment of the court of 
appeals. 
__________________ 
Elizabeth Burick, for appellee Grace Burlingame. 
Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, L.L.P., and Orville R. Reed III; and 
Thomas J. Lombardi, for appellee Eva Finley, Administrator of the Estate of Dale 
Burlingame. 
Kevin R. L’Hommedieu, Canton Chief Counsel, and Kristen Bates 
Aylward, Assistant Law Director, for appellants city of Canton and James R. 
Coombs. 
Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co., L.P.A., Stephen L. Byron, Rebecca K. 
Schaltenbrand, and Stephen J. Smith; and Ohio Municipal League and John 
Gotherman, for amicus curiae, Ohio Municipal League, urging reversal on behalf 
of appellant the city of Canton. 
______________________