Case Title: Williams v. O'Brien

Citation: 1995-Ohio-276

Docket Number: 19930111

State: ohio

Court: Ohio Supreme Court

Date: 1995-06-07T00:00:00Z

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Williams, Exr., Appellant, v. O'Brien et al., Appellees.                         
[Cite as Williams v. O'Brien (1995),     Ohio St.3d    .]                        
Evidence -- Treatise may be used for impeachment purposes to                     
    demonstrate that expert witness is either unaware of the                     
    text or unfamiliar with its contents -- Substance of                         
    treatise employed only to impeach credibility of expert                      
    witness who has relied upon treatise.                                        
    (No. 93-111 -- Submitted April 25, 1995 -- Decided June 7,                   
1995.)                                                                           
    Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Montgomery County, No.                  
12344.                                                                           
                                                                                 
    John H. Metz, for appellant.                                                 
    Jenks, Surdyk & Cowdrey Co., L.P.A., and Robert F. Cowdrey,                  
for appellees Paul E. O'Brien and Paul E. O'Brien, M.D., Inc.                    
    Bieser, Greer & Landis, Howard P. Krisher and Konrad                         
Kircher, for appellee Kettering Medical Center, d.b.a. Sycamore                  
Hospital.                                                                        
                                                                                 
    The judgment of the court of appeals is affirmed on the                      
authority of Stinson v. England (1994), 69 Ohio St.3d 451, 633                   
N.E.2d 532.                                                                      
    Moyer, C.J., Douglas, Wright, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and                      
Cook, JJ., concur.                                                               
    Pfeifer, J., dissents.                                                       
    Pfeifer, J., dissenting.  We should add the learned                          
treatise exception to the hearsay rule in Ohio Evid.R. 803, so                   
that it mirrors its federal counterpart, Fed.Evid.R. 803(18).                    
I, accordingly, dissent.