Title: Valentine v. Willard & Assoc. Title Search Serv.

State: ohio

Issuer: Ohio Supreme Court

Document:

[Cite as Valentine v. Willard & Assoc. Title Search Serv., 96 Ohio St.3d 1216, 2002-Ohio-
5308.] 
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VALENTINE, EXR., APPELLANT, v. WILLARD & ASSOCIATES TITLE SEARCH 
SERVICES ET AL., APPELLEES. 
[Cite as Valentine v. Willard & Assoc. Title Search Serv., 96 Ohio St.3d 1216, 
2002-Ohio-5308.] 
Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed. 
(No. 2001-1417 — Submitted April 24, 2002 at the Perry County Session — 
Decided October 16, 2002.) 
APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Fairfield County, No. 01-CA-15, 2001-
Ohio-4397. 
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The cause is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently 
allowed. 
 
MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, COOK and LUNDBERG 
STRATTON, JJ., concur. 
 
PFEIFER, J., dissents and would affirm the judgment of the court of 
appeals. 
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Leeseberg, Schulman & Valentine, Gerald S. Leeseberg and Susie L. 
Hahn, for appellant. 
 
Ulmer & Berne, L.L.P., Jeffrey W. Van Wagner and Carl A. Anthony, for 
appellees. 
 
Thompson Hine, L.L.P., John T. Sunderland and Lisa A. Lomax, urging 
affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio Land Title Association. 
 
Thompson Hine, L.L.P., John T. Sunderland and Jennifer E. Short; and 
Eugene P. Whetzel, urging affirmance for amicus curiae Ohio State Bar 
Association.